I was reviewing our daily peak application usage report and I was surprised to see a new Application called Bentley CONNECT Agreement Service showing 1 overage a day for the last few days. Can anyone tell me what this application is for and if I should expect an overage invoice at the end of the quarter?
I am not Bentley, but I can say that there are two licensing systems in place at this time. One is for SELECT-version products (V8i based and older) and the other ( the Entitlement Service) is only for CONNECT products.
Only the CONNECT Entitlement service is (apparently) capable of warning, in real time, if a license overage is about to occur, and that can only happen for the CONNECT edition products being managed by that service.
Any older products that are licensed through a SELECT server do not have that capability and will not warn about overages. They never have. It is possible to run over with these products very easily, without warning.
If you are running a mixed shop with both SELECT and CONNECT products, you will only get warnings about the CONNECT products in use, but Bentley will receive usage data for ALL products.
This issue with SELECT overages has been going on as long as the SELECT licensing has been in place, to the IRE of many managers.
If you are running SELECT based products, you should look seriously into upgrading them to versions capable of Entitlement Service licensing. Bentley has scheduled to shut down the SELECT Server this year, and after that, those products will stop receiving licenses unless you convert over to a node-locked license for each.
MaryB
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