Maximum user logins under HP-UX

[Maarten van Maanen]

We have bought a two-user license for our HP-UX 11.00 K370.
Since our K370 has multiple network cards I am considering moving the ftp for customers from a Windows NT machine to the Unix since the data is generated there anyway.
I have let several users (six at the moment) connect to the K370 under HPUX with telnet and their own ID and it works fine.
How should I read this 'two-user' lincense. Does this mean I can connect many more as well ??

[Alex Glennie]

Two users may login via hardwired terminals, 1 user + the console.
Many users may login accross the lan.

[John Palmer]

The user license is policed by HP-UX at the interface level.

A LAN card is deemed to be one interface.

So with a two user license, you could have
- the console
- any amount of users on lan0

or
- the console
- the internal modem

In the latter case no logins would be allowed from the LAN.

I don't know if this is how 'two user' is supposed to be interpreted in licensing terms but this is the way it works.

[James R. Ferguson]

Maarten:

The license count refers to physical interfaces. Therefore the LAN counts as one and you can have lots of users connection and only count once.

...JRF...

[Rick Garland]

As many as you want coming across the LAN. You may encounter other issues with the number of users but those would be kernel params.

1 console + 1 LAN = 2 users

[melvyn burnard]

to my knowledge, you should purchase the correct license level for the number of users who may be connected at any one time, irrespective of how they connected to the system.

[Adam Fairhall]

I queried HP on this as we had a system with a 2 user license and far more users connecting. The official stance is that the machine is not supported if you have more than 2 users connecting at any given time. This machine has 3 lan interfaces and 1 console, so there isn't any policing based on network cards.

Adam
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