using floating license server - force users to use a specific version? [solved]

[Shegit Brahm]

Hi,

I was working on a costumers notebook with EA and one day I was told that my EA version / build does not fit the requirements to gain a license.

Support just installed the newest version and everything was fine.

Now I want to know: as for my own company - do "I" as the license server owner configure it that way? Or does it come together with bought (corporate, floating) licenses as a default feature?
I didn't find any answer on sparx or google.

In earlier scenarios a file based keystore allowed EA 7 as well as  and EA 9 and EA 11.

So who decides which version I need to have in a floating license environment? Sparx or the company?

Thanks,
Shegit

[Glassboy]

I'm not entirely sure what your question is, but floating licences work in perpetuity.  With each licence bought you get a support log on that works for a year, so cynically you only ever need to have one licence in maintenance to download the latest version to update your entire fleet.  It would be much nicer if an organisation had all of their licences under support.  As users of EA we have a vested interest in Sparx being a viable company that can afford to hire programmers able to add the extra features we want to the product.  Without revenue this can't happen.

[Eve]

Sparx Systems doesn't "force" upgrades very often.

In terms of the keystore, the only reason I can think that an upgrade would be forced if you upgraded a file based keystore to a service, and the EA version was too old to support that.

The current version of the keystore service does include a user option to force a minimum EA version. This allows you as a client to ensure all of your modelers are using an updated version. Find and edit this portion of your service config file if you want to change it.

Code: [Select]

# MINIMUM_EA_BUILD - The minimum build of EA that will be serviced by the
# keystore. You can use this keystore server setting to deny older builds of
# EA shared keys from this keystore.
MINIMUM_EA_BUILD=851

[Shegit Brahm]

@Simon M:

Thanks for your answer, that fits to my intention of my question.
So the license management of a company decides to have everywhere e.g. the same minimum off functionality over all users (or whatever the reason finally was).

In mentioned situation it was already a service based keystore as I had to enter a server address the very first time and never again.
So support fixing the problem also did nothing else than installing new on top.

Thank you!