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
Unknown said:That's not entirely accurate. ... In other words, we drop partially filled windows at the beginning of a session, but not at the end of the session.
Now, let's dig deeper. Using products released before August 2015, and licensing via deployed SELECTServer do not fully "benefit" from this, although the 10 minute slices also work for their usage. What does that mean in detail? What are the missing benefits?
As described in the Term License Fact Sheet, the change to the interval only applies to usage sent to the Bentley-hosted SELECTserver. Accounts using a locally deployed SELECTserver will continue to count peak usage based the calendar-hour interval. That's true regardless of when the product was released.
Unknown said: As described in the Term License Fact Sheet, the change to the interval only applies to usage sent to the Bentley-hosted SELECTserver. Accounts using a locally deployed SELECTserver will continue to count peak usage based the calendar-hour interval. That's true regardless of when the product was released.
Hi Daniel,
but here I get a slightly different impression:
Do I have to be using a CONNECT Edition version for usage to be calculated using the 10 minute intervals? All invoices for all products will use the 10 minute interval counting and peak usage calculation rules. Users using deployed SELECTserver will still be subject to these policies, however, may not gain the full advantage because the SELECTserver instance they are using will be unable to benefit from the changes. Therefore, it is recommended that all users migrate to Hosted SELECTserver to avail of these benefits. Users with versions of products released prior to August 2015 (or using versions of the License Management Tool prior to version 9.2.0.25) will still have their usage calculated using the 10 minute policies but in some instances may not get the full advantage of the peak application usage calculations. It is recommended to upgrade to CONENCT Edition or product versions containing License Management Tool version 9.2.0.25 or later.
All invoices for all products will use the 10 minute interval counting and peak usage calculation rules.
Users using deployed SELECTserver will still be subject to these policies, however, may not gain the full advantage because the SELECTserver instance they are using will be unable to benefit from the changes. Therefore, it is recommended that all users migrate to Hosted SELECTserver to avail of these benefits.
Users with versions of products released prior to August 2015 (or using versions of the License Management Tool prior to version 9.2.0.25) will still have their usage calculated using the 10 minute policies but in some instances may not get the full advantage of the peak application usage calculations. It is recommended to upgrade to CONENCT Edition or product versions containing License Management Tool version 9.2.0.25 or later.
(from communities.bentley.com/.../29816.term-licensing-and-application-usage-faqs)
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?