user license

[mike_53]

what does an hpux user license mean? My software agreement show 2 users but I have far more than that logged in.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Mike:

For some strange reason, telnet and rlogin users do not count. However, user's logged in via serial connections (modems or direct serial) count. Moreover, the number of NFS clients, RPC clients, etc. doesn't matter either.

Regards, Clay

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

The license structure as I understand it is:

telnet & rlogin count as 1 no matter the number. serial connections are counted as each and so do directly attached modems. I am pretty sure that any other type of connection is not counted at all.

Suggest you obtain an unlimited user license
which are now free, then you won't have a problem at all from HP or www.software.hp.com

HTH
-Michael

[paul courry]

Suggest you do a search on this forum and documents as well. There is a paper explaining it available.

[Wodisch]

Hello Mike,

actually, it does NOT mean a lot lot, any more...
IIRC you can get the "unlimited user license" for free,
today.
Have a look o www.software.hp.com.

HTH,
Wodisch

[Patrick Wallek]

From TKB document UNX1000274

Problem Description

Are multiple network logins counted as multiple users for your user licensing?

Solution

No, it's still one user per physical interface (serial port, LAN card, etc.).

[linuxfan]

Hi Mike,

You can get a free upgrade to a unlimited user license from

https://software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/try.pl?productNumber=UNLIMUSERLIC&date=

Here's a thread
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0xe472abe92dabd5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

-HTH
Ramesh

[Printaporn_1]

user license = max number of serial connection including console.

[Santosh Nair_1]

This is a throwback to the olden days of unix where users had hardwired terminals connected to the servers. But these days, since most users use telnet/rlogin/and other means of network connection, the user license means much less.
From what I was told by HP many years ago, each serial connection is one user and *all* the telnet/rlogin, etc users are also one user. So unless you have lots of serial connections you really don't need to worry about the user license...and besides, as was already mentioned several times...you can get the unlimited user license for free.

-Santosh