To Network or Stand-alone in the ADT/ACA world.

[Jason_S]

I have almost 60 seats of ADT/ACA with 36 of them stand-alone and the remaining seats network. I am however running low on the network side and have to go around and ask people to exit so others can get in and work for a moment.

I proposed to upgrade the stand-alone seats to network and make all the seats network. This however has cause of concern with individuals that pay the bills. The cost to buy a couple new seats and upgrading the remaining seats are about the same. They are concerned that having all network seats will sometimes block people who use ADT all day everyday from getting access if they come in later than others.

My comment is that the users who pop in and out will free their seats up for others and the full time users will still have enough access to licenses that they will still be working and billable.

Is there a rule of thumb that everyone uses to help determine the number of network licenses to have with the number of installs?

Where I worked previously, I used the rule, for every three users there is a seat of ADT. This worked rather well and we didn't have license issues. Here it was every user that used it more than five hours a day got a stand-alone seat. The problem with this is when that individual is on vacation or out sick the seat could still be used if needed and people can work from their own computer.

Thoughts, comments, suggestions greatly appreciated and welcome.

Jason

[TravisNave]

It sounds like you need to do a little maintenance and homework.

First, you need an Options file. The first thing you should have in it is TIMEOUTALL 900. This will return any idle licenses back to the pool after 15 minutes.

Secondly, if you have particular ADT users that really do need the program 100% of the time, then set up a RESERVE so that those few licenses are always available to those specific people.

The instructions on how to create the adskflex.opt Options file are in the NLM manual.

[Anonymous]

I suggest too that you move all to network licenses. As previously worked as
CAD Manager that would be my choice. Especially with so many users there are
always some at a meeting, taking a break, doing something else for 15-30
minutes.
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"caddman13" wrote in message news:5671751@discussion.autodesk.com...
I have almost 60 seats of ADT/ACA with 36 of them stand-alone and the
remaining seats network. I am however running low on the network side and
have to go around and ask people to exit so others can get in and work for a
moment.

I proposed to upgrade the stand-alone seats to network and make all the
seats network. This however has cause of concern with individuals that pay
the bills. The cost to buy a couple new seats and upgrading the remaining
seats are about the same. They are concerned that having all network seats
will sometimes block people who use ADT all day everyday from getting access
if they come in later than others.

My comment is that the users who pop in and out will free their seats up for
others and the full time users will still have enough access to licenses
that they will still be working and billable.

Is there a rule of thumb that everyone uses to help determine the number of
network licenses to have with the number of installs?

Where I worked previously, I used the rule, for every three users there is a
seat of ADT. This worked rather well and we didn't have license issues.
Here it was every user that used it more than five hours a day got a
stand-alone seat. The problem with this is when that individual is on
vacation or out sick the seat could still be used if needed and people can
work from their own computer.

Thoughts, comments, suggestions greatly appreciated and welcome.

Jason

[Anonymous]

All of out licenses are Network licenses.
The only real problems we run into are from our "Less Qualified" users working on the road.
The forget to borrow a license before they leave, fire up autocad products at a job site without internet access and complain about being embarrassed. Or perhaps try to open files from a wireless access point and complain about speed.

[Anonymous]

Certainly it is recommended that you re-configure all your licenses as
network licenses.
This will likely let you decrease with a few licenses since you will find
that users are not using the software all the time.

Then you can track your licenses to see the rate of usage.
Our License Statistics software offers some unique features which includes
utilization graphs (which lets you know HOW MUCH the licenses were actually
used), plotting of more applications within the same graph and tracking of
denials to see if you need more licenses.

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