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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  • Trust Licensing is built upon the premise that licensing should not interrupt the legitimate user from getting his work done.  Isn't that the real objective here - to optimize the effective use of the software in order to get work done?  When a licensing mechanism gets so focused on enforcing a usage cap, it gets in the way of this effective use.  So we redesigned our licensing paradigm to intentionally eliminate interruption to the user, even if it came at the expense of just letting the application run, whether there is a license available or not.

    Take a look at this thread.

    communities.bentley.com/.../196790.aspx



  • I have checked the box for "Restrict usage to only checked out licenses- All users will need to check out a license for every application they wish to use," But the user is still able to run the software in Offline mode for 30 days. Does that mean, when they finally checkout a license (which would re-activate the software), the past 30 days usage is then uploaded tot he server ?
  • Well what is the purpose of the option "Restrict usage to only checked out licenses- All users will need to check out a license for every application they wish to use," ?
  • The setting forces users to check out a license in order to activate it. Otherwise, the product will operate in trial or offline mode for 15-30 days before disabling itself. The following checkout-only support solution explains the setting in more detail and provides one possible workflow that can help control usage using license checkouts, but it is cumbersome. Another support solution provides additional strategies for limiting usage that are less intrusive.



  • 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?????
  • 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.
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  • 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.
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