Author Topic: Floating Licenses => DRP (Read 6893 times)

Giafar · « **on:** January 21, 2009, 02:20:34 am »

Hello,

My company has built 20 floating Licenses of Enterprise Architect (Corporate version).

But the company must follow a Disaster Recovery Process, which can be useful in case of disaster.

All data of the company are copied twice, once in the building and once (back-up) 10 km away.

The problem is that these floating licenses are saved in a server and now, we make a link from the computers where de tool is installed, to this repository with the floating licenses.

But in the case a disaster occurs, the link to the other server should be changed and I suppose that can be a problem for floating licenses, because a KeyStore may not be moved.

Can you give some feed-back about this issue?

Thank you very much

Eve · « **Reply #1 on:** January 21, 2009, 08:07:26 am »

My personal recommendation would be to keep the original record of your keys, and create a new key file if something happened to the original.

Giafar · « **Reply #2 on:** January 22, 2009, 02:28:24 am »

Thanks for your answer.

But I don't understand well what you mean when you write "keep the original record of your keys" ; the key is defined in a licence server and should be released before being used in another key file.

How van we keep the keys ?

Thanks

bioform · « **Reply #3 on:** January 22, 2009, 03:25:27 am »

I believe he means keep a soft copy list of all of the license key text ({A234-DFEA, etc.), so that you would be able to re-install the key admin app, and then recreate your key data file.

Does that help?
David

Henrique Narciso · « **Reply #4 on:** January 28, 2009, 05:14:50 am »

Simply put, regenerate the sskey dat file.

bioform · « **Reply #5 on:** January 28, 2009, 07:01:29 am »

Well yeah.... but I get paid by the word!! Umm, I mean don't we get paid for this? I keep looking in the mail....

Giafar · « **Reply #6 on:** January 28, 2009, 07:27:24 pm »

OK,

The problem is solved.

Thanks for your answer

Giafar · « **Reply #7 on:** February 02, 2009, 08:36:41 pm »

Hello, I excuse me, but the problem is not really solved.

I have received extra information and will ask the question in a more accurate way.

The licenses are located in a virtual server. If a problem occurs, this virtual server will be "replaced" by a copy of this virtual server situated 10 km away. For almost all applications, this event has no impact and the applications keep running.

But if that occurs, the Mac adress would change.

So, my question is : are the floating licenses of Enterprise Architect linked on the Mac Adress ? If no, there would be indeed no problem and even nothing should be done. If yes, we should define the Mac Adress as static.

Thank you

Regards

bioform · « **Reply #8 on:** February 03, 2009, 03:23:31 am »

We may need EA to way in on this... "HELLO EA Admin! Are you there!!

In the mean time, I would expect that it would cause a problem since the encryption is based on some value form the PC you ran the keystore utility on, and some value(s) from the location selected for the encrypted keystore file to be created...

But, this is ONLY my thoughts, guesses, etc. You might want to send the question on the support forum?

David

TomO · « **Reply #9 on:** February 06, 2009, 03:24:52 pm »

Hello Giafar,

You should have no problems implementing the solution that Simon M Suggested - EA licenses are not node locked.

Once the new keyfile is created you will need to reference the network path again in each EA installation. (the same as your initial setup)

I hope this helps :-)

bioform · « **Reply #10 on:** February 07, 2009, 01:58:13 am »

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... - EA licenses are not node locked.

What did you mean by this?
Thanks,

David

TomO · « **Reply #11 on:** February 09, 2009, 10:08:14 am »

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What did you mean by this?

Hello David,

The licenses are not locked to the MAC address

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