Re: what is a licence server

The licenses are 'stored' in a file that tells Ideas how many people may use
the software. The license server is the machine on the network that all of
the other machines 'ask' if there is a license available for use. The
license server machine then checks out a license to a user on a machine and
keeps track of it.

In our UG setup, we have 45+ workstations loaded with UG software, but the
license file says that only 34 people can use UG concurrently. The
workstations get their licenses from the license server.

"yogesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> hello!!!
> in our institute there are 4-5 silicon graphics workstations and we
> work on I-Deas there..very often we come across the following problem.
> I-deas on all the machines never work unless one particular machine is
> kept on.on enquiring about it the lab technician told us that the
> licence server for ideas is kept there..
>
> i know all our sgi machines are in irix network so i can understand
> the particular machine being the os server for all the machines..but
> this license server thing is somewhat confusing to me..
> could someone explain to me what is the purpose of a license server
> and how the ideas client-server setup works???
>
> thanks and regards,
> yogesh