Inactivity : ARD

[Anonymous]

With certain products such as Raster Design (ARD), a license is not
checked out until that product is initilized. For example, our ARD is
licensed using NLM. We can open a standalone LDT or MAP, work for an
hour, then initilize an ARD command. Only at that point is the license
requested from the NLM.

However, at what point is that license returned? If the timeout is 5400,
and you run one ARD command at Noon - is the license returned at 1:30pm?

In other words, when AutoCAD is using the NLM, a license is returned
upon closing of the application or when the timeout is reached. The
timeout being the duration of inactivity. How is "inactivity" defined in
a product like ARD? Is it the inactivity of the parent application
(AutoCAD, LDT, MAP?)

Our timeout is in fact 5400, and I had a user in ARD last night. He
closed all drawings but left AutoCAD open all night. This morning, his
machine still had one license, even though AutoCAD was in a
zero-document stage for 7+ hours.

Why didn't that ARD license timeout?

TIA

--
R.K. McSwain
http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com

[mahahaavaahava]

Hi,

check this:

http://tinyurl.com/8cejo

Cheers,

Petri, Finland

[Anonymous]

petri_ahava@msn said the following on 12/14/2005 4:14 AM:
> Hi,
>
> check this:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/8cejo
>
> Cheers,
>
> Petri, Finland

Ok, that tells you how to release a license, and sort of implies that if
you don't release it that it stays checked out until AutoCAD is shut
down --- but it doesn't actually SAY that.

I'll have to assume that the timeout specified in the OPTIONS file does
not apply to ARD.

--
R.K. McSwain
http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com