Re: 515 and 525 user licensing

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I and others asked many user based questions of  Jim Herring and Ian 
Jarman on the iSociety Chat last week. (Complete transcript here: 
http://www.isociety.org/Chat20070412.html ) You can read the exact 
answers there but here is the summary of what I learned.

1) User profiles count, not signed on users.  It wasn't asked but the Q 
profiles cannot possibly count as there are nearly 50 of them to start 
and the base 515 license is 5 users and the limit is 40!

2) The same user (a real person) accessing the system in a great number 
of ways counts as one.  Ian said: "One person one user. Answer = one."

3) The 40 users is hard cap on the 515, not a suggestion, guideline, or 
recommendation.

4) You could theoretically allow all your users to sign on with one user 
profile. It would work but you would be in violation of the license.  
Jim said: "we trust in the integrity of the our clients"

Hopefully this clears things up just a little.

 - Larry


Greg Wenzloff wrote:
> Group,
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> I guess I didn't grasp the discussion on the new licensing counts very
> well.
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> We have 177 user profiles on our system.  49 of them start with 'Q'.
> Sometimes we sign on as QSECOFR but the rest are not used to sign on.
> So I figure I need 1 seat for the 'Q' profiles - perhaps 2 if I count
> QSYSOPR.
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> I have about 40 RF terminals in the factory that sign on as 5250
> sessions using a user profile for each terminal. Multiple workers use
> each terminal entering a badge number for their transactions - the OS
> shouldn't care about that.  So currently these terminals would need 40
> seats. Right?  But what if I change it so there is only one user profile
> that signs onto 40 devices.     Do I only need 1 seat now for the
> factory?
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> I don't have any 'external users' using the system.
>
> I'm thinking we need about a 100 user 525 but not sure exactly how to
> count it.  
>
> I hope they go over this at COMMON.
>
> Greg
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