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Reserved licenses in options file

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mdhutchinson
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Reserved licenses in options file

We have 19 licenses with 14 that are RESERVED... this leaves 5 licenses to be shared among the rest ... As is the case fairly often all 14 users are not here ... sure would be nice to allow more then 5 when there are unused licenses in the RESERVED pool. Is there a way this can be done? ... I read the end users manual and it is not clear to me how - is it through the BORROW feature ... or is this when a user wants to 'check out' a license for a trip away from the office?
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JPM
in reply to: mdhutchinson

You are right about the BORROW feature - it is for taking licenses offline (i.e. travel) for a period of time.
I can't think of a way to release any of the 14 reserved licenses in an elegant way.
One thing that might help you with the 5 shared licenses, is to implement the TIMEOUT feature for them. I found that very helpful by setting a timeout of 30 minutes which then allows that license to be used by someone else if demanded otherwise it is still available to the timed out user. It really cut down on my max license hits and I have never had a complaint from a user - of course I am dealing with 18 shared licenses, so it cuts down the odds that someone who is timed out would attempt to use AutoCAD and be told that all licenses are in use.

JPM
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Anonymous
in reply to: mdhutchinson

I would even suggest to set timeout to the lowest value 15 minutes. Never
had problems with that. See the image on the link below for some real usage
experience of it.
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"JPM" wrote in message news:5595156@discussion.autodesk.com...
You are right about the BORROW feature - it is for taking licenses offline
(i.e. travel) for a period of time.
I can't think of a way to release any of the 14 reserved licenses in an
elegant way.
One thing that might help you with the 5 shared licenses, is to implement
the TIMEOUT feature for them. I found that very helpful by setting a
timeout of 30 minutes which then allows that license to be used by someone
else if demanded otherwise it is still available to the timed out user. It
really cut down on my max license hits and I have never had a complaint from
a user - of course I am dealing with 18 shared licenses, so it cuts down the
odds that someone who is timed out would attempt to use AutoCAD and be told
that all licenses are in use.

JPM
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TravisNave
in reply to: mdhutchinson

I agree. I always run my TIMEOUTALL at 900.


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Anonymous
in reply to: mdhutchinson

> One thing that might help you with the 5 shared licenses, is to implement
> the TIMEOUT feature for them. I found that very helpful by setting a
> timeout
>of 30 minutes which then allows that license to be used by someone else if
>demanded
> otherwise it is still available to the timed out user. It really cut down
> on my max
>license hits and I have never had a complaint from a user - of course I am
>dealing with
>18 shared licenses, so it cuts down the odds that someone who is timed out
>would
> attempt to use AutoCAD and be told that all licenses are in use.

One other way is to use some tracking software to track users. Some times
people forget to log off their machines.

Our application License Statistics has functionality to send out emails when
users are using software too long. This might help you track down those
users who are behaving worst.
This is not necessarily a solution which solves all problems but might
complement other solutions posted.

See http://www.x-formation.com/license_statistics/index.html

Best Regards,

Henrik Goldman
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