RE: QLZARTV not returning license info as expected

Dave,

maybe I'm missing something, but then again, maybe you are. :-) In the
example you gave in the first message the default number of users was set to
1. What I said was you had to exceed this number in order to trigger the
grace period. The length of the grace period is not relevant. If at any
point in time you have no more than one licence requestor active, the Grace
Period will never even start!

Now you're saying you set the default number of users to 0. That should have
changed the picture. The product installed, if you then request a licence
through an API before adding licence keys, you would trigger the grace
period switch. At least, that's how it works for me. And I tested it for all
OS releases from 4.1 to 4.4.

And by the way, yes, you are right, when in the grace period, there is no
restriction on the number of licences granted, default user limit playing no
role at that time. 

Lo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Murvin [SMTP:davem@drme.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 12:44 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      RE: QLZARTV not returning license info as expected
> 
> Thanks for the response.  I was hopping to get more activity on this, but
> I 
> guess I need to have a more popular subject.  Something religious perhaps?
> :)
> 
> The way I read the API documents, it looked like setting the Default usage
> 
> limit to zero users, the Grace period to 30 days, and then set allow 
> default usage limit grace period to Yes would do the job for me.
> According 
> to the API documentation, if I allow a default grace period, then "The 
> default usage limit is the number of users that are able to use the
> product 
> or feature before the license key is installed.  Thus, an unlimited number
> 
> of users can use the product or feature for the number of days in the
> grace 
> period without having a key."
> 
> I could certainly use the product, but what confuses me is the return of 
> the permanent expiration date (9999999).  I got the same response when I 
> set the grace period to zero days.  I was not planning on explicitly 
> issuing license requests in the applications, but was just going to check 
> when the license expires.  Like I said, I don't care how many users or
> what 
> size machine.  They should just have a license to run the product on a 
> particular CPU after the trial period expires.
> 
> Perhaps I can just auto-generate a temporary key at product installation
> time.
> 
> This is an evenings and weekends project, so will try some other 
> combinations this weekend.
> 
> Thanks again for the help.
> 
> At 10:51 AM 5/30/00 +1000, Lo wrote:
> >We developed a similar product a while ago, and if my memory does not
> trick
> >me, grace period is always related to the user limit, not to the product
> as
> >such. To make your product enter the grace period you have to request the
> >default number of licences + 1. Needless to say, you have to explicitely
> >issue licence requests from your application. Only at this point the
> grace
> >period starts. In your definition the default number of users is set to
> 1,
> >consequently, to enter the grace period you have to concurrently request
> at
> >least 2 licences.
> 
> Dave Murvin
> DRM Enterprises, Inc.
> davem@drme.com
> 
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