User License Limits?

[Michael Gambardella]

How can I tell the maximum number of users on my vms system? My guess is that at 100 units per activity it will max out at 57 users

My licenses are below:


OPENVMS-ALPHA DEC 400 0 A 0.0 (none) (none)
OPENVMS-ALPHA-ADL DEC 5700 0 100 0.0 (none) (none)

[Karl Rohwedder]

Michael,

that is correct. The 1st license is the OpenVMS license itself, while the *-ADL is the user license (sh lic/usage shows the current usage).

regards Kalle

[John Gillings · Accepted solution]

Michael,

The OPENVMS-ALPHA PAK should enable at least one user. Compare the number of units with your table A requirement.

See: $ SHOW LICENSE/UNIT_REQUIREMENT

OPENVMS-ALPHA is your operating system PAK. If you have the correct PAK it should be enough for ONE interactive login, which, by your license agreement, should only be used for system management purposes. Assuming your Table A unit requirement is 400, you will be able to login 58 users, but should have interactive logins set to 57 (the limit of your user PAKs) so that the 58th login can only be used by a user with OPER privilege.

In practice, the units for the OPENVMS-ALPHA PAK is used first.

$ SHOW LICENSE/USAGE/FULL OPENVMS*

will show which processes are using which PAKs.

[Michael Gambardella]

Karl / John,

Thanks for your responses. That is exactly what I needed.

/Mike