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In our new work-from-home environment, network access is not always a guarantee and, with the Rev 11 licensing, that could be a problem.
Our corporate license server sits, as you would expect, on the corporate network. This requires that I both have internet access as well as a functioning VPN to do any work at all (not to mention the license server needs to be up). Any one of those could be down and we could be functionally dead in the water.
What I propose is a system similar to the Rev 11 licensing. Our local licenses would only need periodic access to our license server. This could be once a day or once a week or whatever is considered feasible. This would let us continue working if there is any temporary disruption to our corporate license server.

3 Comments | Posted by Erik Read to Licensing on 10/12/2021 3:03 PM
Steve Ives
Hi Eric,

I assume your main concern here is developers, as I think it's highly unlikely that production apps are being deployed to "at home" PC's? If that is the case, and bearing in mind that development licenses are free under the terms of your DevPartner agreement, the best solution here is really to just install licensing on your own PC, and not rely on a remote license server at all. In the "old days" the downside to this would be the annual need to install new keys on each system, but REV11 licensing has eliminated that issue. You would need to "zap" (with an LMU -K password) and re-do the licensing one time on each of the dev PC's to make this a reality, but it would completely solve your issue after doing so.
 

10/14/2021 8:41 PM   1  
Erik Read
Yes, development is my main concern. Will the developer's license also take care of testing against a 'live' environment?
So I am primarily doing front-end (angular) development. With the dev license will I then be able to connect up to our web service and run Synergy code/access our databases? So basically a completely offline experience.

10/14/2021 8:50 PM   0  
Steve Ives
Yep, no difference at all, except that you will have a license server process on your local PC instead of accessing one over the network. And if you use multiple PC's and/or VMs in your home dev lab (Windows, and even Linux from 12.0), your local license server can serve licenses to those systems also. And if it's a laptop, you can disconnect and work completely off-line if necessary.

10/14/2021 8:55 PM   2  
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