Re:

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


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