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- From: terry@asl.dl.nec.com
- Subject: Re: Licensing FM
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.200620.11329@asl.dl.nec.com>
- Originator: terry@aslws01
- Keywords: Licensing
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- Organization: NEC America, Inc Irving TX
- References: <1992Nov17.161422.28186@rzu-news.unizh.ch>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:06:20 GMT
- Lines: 54
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- In article <1992Nov17.161422.28186@rzu-news.unizh.ch>
- suter@rsl.geogr.unizh.ch (Martin Suter) writes:
-
- > | With a little discipline, several simultaneous users can get by with
- > | one license. I think our site has five licenses for thirty users ...
- >
- > Who has more information about this subject? Is the above statement true?
-
- Yup. The more occassional users you have, the fewer licenses you can get
- by with statistically. Our ratio back at the Contel Technology Center was
- higher than 1:6, but then we were rather heavy Frame users.
-
- However, you need to do one other thing: Set the system default for the
- field under the (FrameMaker level) menu:
-
- INFO -> License... -> Give Up License When Idle:
-
- ... to the smallest possible value (was 1 hour in 2.3; I'm not sure if they
- allow anything smaller now. (I do not know exactly where you find in in the
- system defaults -- the one I've just described simply tells you what your
- default is, without setting it system-wide.)
-
- What this does is cause FrameMaker to give up its license token after it sits
- idle for one hour. The ONLY visible effect of this, however, is simply to
- make FrameMaker slow down by 2 or 3 seconds the first time you use it after
- a time out. Most folks don't even realize anything is different.
-
- (Of course if you run out of licenses, it will come back with an no-licenses
- message. Generally you need to load your system with licenses until the
- chances of not getting a license back after a time out is negligible.)
-
- I know of NO reason for having the license time-out value set very high,
- since the license re-aquisition process is so inoculous and is essentially
- invisible. Keeping it high really just wastes your FrameMaker licenses.
-
- BTW - Did you know you can (could?) use a FrameMaker license token from a
- remote site (possibly very remote!) simply by giving an email-style host
- address in the License Server Host field? I've seen folks operate Frame
- in Virginia using a license from New Jersey. (Please note that I'm not
- sure you can still do this with 3.1.) This feature is handy if you are
- in a distributed environment and want to keep the number of statistically
- necessary licenses down to a minimum.
-
- It is also a good argument for a little system security!
-
- Cheers,
- Terry Bollinger
-
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