can selectserver restrict usage to number of licenses owned ?

Somewhere in the past, selectserver used to limit usage.  This was awesome!  It kept us in compliance and kept our rep from calling.  But maybe all good things do come to an end.  Our users need to experience denial.  Maybe version 9 of selectserver will bring back some of the license management functionality we crave.  I want my license manager (selectserver) to do more than monitor and report.  Pooled and Trust Licensing are failing us.

Anyone have any info on this topic? 

thanks

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  • Jeremy,

    Do you all see how ridiculous this is?

    Your own page on limiting use(the second link in your post) shows two options that are worse than the old method of being notified that all licenses are in use and the third option listed to use a 3rd party software to limit the use is completely absurd. If a third party software developer can figure out how to limit our use why can't Bentley?????
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  • I understand how some companies (with lots of licenses) could find this policy useful. But others where Bentley software is a small part of the business and hence have a small number of licenses (in my case 2), over usage charges could get very expensive. It should simply be an option for a company to enable or completely disable over usage - make it so the software won't even start if the SelectServer does not respond.

    If the option was there before, then obviously it's achievable.
  • I'm still really annoyed about this! We have been discussing this with Bentley for years now but all we get is platitudes and useless advice about checking out a license etc! To their credit, they pointed us to a third party tool that enables us to restrict application usage. However, it is an additional cost!

    Can someone from Bentley please answer this: Is it really that difficult to add a switch that allows us to turn on restrictive licensing?! Particularly when this functionality was already built into the product! Someone actually had to remove the code! Just leave it there and allow us (the customer) to choose!

    Based on our analysis, we have had to keep our license count artificially high to avoid getting 1 QTL let alone 4! Completely ridiculous! Its not just my personal view that trust licensing and particularly the most recent change to QTL's, is clearly designed to raise revenue!

    This is part of the reason that we are moving to Autodesk.
  • Is the start/stop time for license usage based on the time of the SelectServer or the time on the workstation. For example, on my side of the country it's 10:27am. On the other side it's 8:27am. Do I need to be consider that time difference in my usage calculations ?
  • Time of the usage is recorded based on user machine time and converted to UTC. It does not depend on the Server time.

  • That would mean if 2 people were running the software at the same time, but in different time zones, 2 hours apart - then only 1 license usage would be recorded. That is, I ran the software from 10.30-10:50am and a person in the other office ran the software from 8.30-8.50am - they would not be calculated in the same hourly license period ? Is that correct ?