The 10 Licenses are reserved for the Group in the Pool. No one else can access those license tokens. The remaining licenses are given out by Group preference, lower number Group ID is the first considered group. This applies to users who are waiting for a token. If all of the Floating tokens are used and someone from the pool logs off the token will go to the other Group A member who is waiting for a token. If no Group A users are waiting then the pooled token waits for the next Group A to log on. My take on it is that Pooled Licenses is a pseudo fixed license. The battle between a Group A and a Group "Everyone_else" is won by the Group A user needing the Floating token.
John J. Reiser Software Development Analyst Remedy Administrator/Developer Lockheed Martin - MS2 The star that burns twice as bright burns half as long. Pay close attention and be illuminated by its brilliance. - paraphrased by me ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Group Form, Floating Licenses Field ** I disagree with Sean - I think the 10 are reserved, but not in the same way that a fixed license is. If there are only 5 people in the reserved group who are using their licenses, the other 5 are open for use by anyone - until someone within the reserved group needs it, in which case one of the interlopers gets his/her license converted to a Read license so that the user in the reserved group can use the write license guaranteed to that group. I don't have access to my docs to verify that, but it's the way it was last explained to me. Does someone have the definitive word on this? Rick On 1/25/08, David Durling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think we agree, or at least I agree with what you say. Maybe I just didn't state things well... David D. Univ. of Georgia > I don't think that is correct. My understanding is this: > If you have 50 floating licenses and you say that Group A gets 10 then > that means that Group A will always have 10 floating licenses no matter > what. Think of a situation where your company has a 24x7 operations > center. What this is for is to guarantee that your operations center > always has 10 users that could log in and always have a license. This > also means that the 41st user to log in who is not a member of Group A > will get a license denial ... > Sean > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Durling > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 2:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Group Form, Floating Licenses Field > Shawn, > On 6.0 (assume same as 6.3), my understanding: > Like L.J. said, if no one from Group A is logged in, the 10 are simply > unusable by anyone. > If you want to disallow Group A from using MORE than 10, you'll need to > assign the others licenses to another group/groups. > I don't know what happens when person is in 2 different groups that have > reserved licesnes - maybe the docs address that. -- David Durling 706-542-0223 Enterprise IT Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Georgia ________________________________________________________________________ _______ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" __Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" html___ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
