That is one way, however, you can have two or more servers on on machine which do not share license so you mnarry the lciense to the server. You could have prod 1 with 50 users and prod 2 with 15 users. When someone tries to log into prod 2 (16th) even if there are only 20 connected to prod 1, the connection will be refused
Regards Chuck On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:20 PM, Tim Nevels via 4D_Tech < [email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 22, 2018, at 11:02 AM, Chip Scheide wrote: > > > As long as you run on the same physical box (or in/on the same VM), you > > should be able to run 2 or more copies of Server at the same time. You > > will need to run each instance on a different set of ports. > > > > You are still limited to the to the same total number of concurrent > > user licenses across all instances of Server. > > > > Example: > > 1 - Mac Pro (why not)... > > 1 - Production server > > 1 - Test server > > 1 - Dev server > > > > Available user licenses: 50 > > Prod server uses 40 > > Test server uses 5 > > Dev server uses 5 > > all is good, next user to log in to any server would get a 'not enough > > licenses' warning. > > > > 4D support (Tim?) can correct me if I am wrong. > > > That is how I understand it to work. Licenses are assigned to the physical > machine 4D Server is running on, not the 4D Server application. The is why > there is a single “Licenses” folder on the machine. Hence, license sharing > among multiple 4D Server applications on the same machine is allowed and > supported. > > I do it all the time when I need to put up a test version of a new > structure at a client’s office. I run a second 4D Server application on > their server machine and use a different set of ports. Then the testers > have a special copy of 4D Client that has the different ports set and they > use that to log into the test version. > > It used to be that the first 4D Server that was launched become the > “license manger server”. Any additional 4D Server instances launched on the > machine went through the first 4D Server application to get available > license information. If you tried to quit 4D Server #1 and 4D Server #2 was > still running you would get a message that you could not quit 4D Server #1 > until 4D Server #2 was no longer running. Have not seen that message in a > long time, so not sure it still works that way. > > Tim > > Tim Nevels > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Innovative Solutions > 785-749-3444 > > > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Miller Voice: (617) 739-0306 Fax: (617) 232-1064 Informed Solutions, Inc. Brookline, MA 02446 USA Registered 4D Developer Providers of 4D, Sybase & SQL Server connectivity http://www.informed-solutions.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message and any attached documents contain information which may be confidential, subject to privilege or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. These materials are intended only for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of this transmission, you are hereby notified that any distribution, disclosure, printing, copying, storage, modification or the taking of any action in reliance upon this transmission is strictly prohibited. Delivery of this message to any person other than the intended recipient shall not compromise or waive such confidentiality, privilege or exemption from disclosure as to this communication. ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
