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Sounds good Ron, I agree that it seems close enough. But that is between you and your customers, really. Right? I'm glad to see that as a vendor you are working to accommodate your customers. Chris Rehm javadisciple@earthlink.net If you believe that the best technology wins the marketplace, you haven't been paying attention. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Ron@cpumms.com> To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 8:01 AM > > > <<Hey Ron, with all the discussion have you reached a decision on how you > will > <<manage the user count? > > Chris, > > Yeah, I did post a final resolution, but you might have missed it. > > For PC's, I'm going to count each TCPIP address as a separate user. This > means that mulitple sessions on the same terminal only get counted once, > but the same user on multiple terminals gets counted multiple times. This > is the ideal we were trying to reach with "dumb terminals". > > For "dumb terminals" I'm going to look at the port and user profile to > determine a user and allow 2 signons per port/user to count as a single > user. This allows for dual sessions on each terminal to be counted as a > single signon. And if I make the number of signons allowed a variable > stuck in a user space somewhere, then we can change the number for accounts > that really need more. > > This means that if a user signs onto the same port all seven times, I will > count him only 4 times. He gets 3 freebies. But if he really needs dual > sessions to be productive, as soon as he starts another session on f those > terminals I will start to pick up the count correctly. It's not perfect, > but it seems to be a pretty fair compromise. > > Again I want to say thanks to everybody who contributed to this discussion. > It's nice to know that a lot of people struggled with the right way to > handle this and that I didn't miss something real obvious. > > > Ron Hawkins +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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