Changes to the Licensing Increment?

Question

I am assisting another firm with their licensing setup. They are telling me that the licensing increment of 1 hour is being revised to 10 minutes.Can I get a definitive statement on this from Bentley. 
 Is the one hour increment still in effect or has the policy been changed? 
 TIA

Elisabeth Jaouad · Answer

Hi CADDCOP, we are indeed in the process of revising the hourly increment to a 10 minute interval. The changes are expected to go into effect for invoices for this quarter (which are billed in the first week of July). Official announcements are in process and should be released shortly.

Jeremy Hoesly · Answer

Unknown said: 
 So maybe the analysis reports from deployed Selectservers will show the old counting results to us, but after nightly upload to Bentley your calculations (and invoices) will be based on the 10 minute intervals? 
 
 Deployed servers send the following information to Bentley: 
 
 Peak usage for products using the one-hour interval 
 Hashed machine names and the dates when products were used 
 Hashed user names and the dates when products were used (for passports) 
 
 The start and stop times are not reported to Bentley from deployed servers, so there is no way to recalculate the peaks using the new 10-minute interval. Bentley has access to this data on the hosted server (i.e. Bentley CONNECT SELECTservices) for recalculation efforts, hence the recommendation to migrate to the hosted server .

Jeremy Hoesly · Answer

The following diagram posted on Bentley Communities shows the information transmitted to the hosted server . It receives the same data that client machines currently send to your deployed SELECTserver. No information is hashed since the hosted server needs the user and machine names to generate usage reports just like your deployed server. 
 By default, client machines send usage information to the license server using the HTTP protocol which is not encrypted since deployed servers rarely are configured with an SSL certificate. However, the hosted server has one using 256-bit SHA-2 RSA encryption. So I highly recommend configuring clients to enable the "Use HTTPS (SSL)" checkbox in the License Management Tool when using the hosted server. 
 The hosted server is based in a Microsoft Azure data center located in the United States. Note that our static IP address (191.237.154.77) was originally reserved for use in Brazil, but Microsoft has since repurposed it for use in the United States because of the shortage of available IPv4 addresses . While major geolocation services should show the correct location, some may show a discrepancy. 
 The following support solution provides some additional information regarding the differences between a deployed server and Bentley's hosted server .