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DKWAN
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I'm reading the 7.6 upgrade materials, and I found there are instructions on creating test/production instance.
In fact, we need to find out how to have a public view instance and a secured instance since we are planning to develope some self service pages for the public to view.

Any experience in these issues you can shared with me? Is the second instance in the same box using just different port has problems witht he licenses area?



Prod: WebFOCUS 7.1.1 CGI - Self Service - Report Caster,Win2000/IIS
Output: HTML, Excel 2000 and PDF
 
Posts: 36 | Location: LOS ANGELES | Registered: February 01, 2006Report This Post
Darin Lee
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You're going to have to check with your local rep for sure on the licensing, but in my experience here's how it runs. You cah have multiple servers existing ON THE SAME BOX/SAME OS without needing additional licenses. When you configure them, you just change the port numbers. Realize also that they are now competing for resource, so don't go wild with them. All servers will also have to be "registered" with the WF Client as well. There are additional licensing issues for other platforms like Z-Linux, so again, check with your rep.


Regards,

Darin


In FOCUS since 1991
WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex
Data: DB2/UDB, Adabas, SQL Server Output: HTML,PDF,EXL2K/07, PS, AHTML, Flex
WF Client: 77 on Linux w/Tomcat
 
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GinnyJakes
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Darin, I am pretty sure that is not true anymore. We have multiple reporting servers and they each have their own license key.

DKWAN, we run self-service and have both secure and public applications running from the same reporting server. We are running OPSYS security and have a default id set up for the reporting server. However, on the client-side, we have multiple logical servers or nodes pointing to the same reporting server. For the secure one, we force users to log on and run them through an exit that validates their credentials in LDAP. All of that gets put in session variables that the focexecs can use.

You can also lock down the secure applications with directory permissions as well.

If you are going to run test and prod, you will need two licenses. Please contact your local office for more info on this.


Ginny
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Darin Lee
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Could be wrong, but we just went through a big licensing thing. The standard software agreement is to license by the platform on which it resides and allows for a single image of the software installation. However, a single image of the software allows you to (and even provides menus to) configure multiple instances of a server. If you create multiple images, (install in more than one directory on a box, install on more than one box, multiple LPARs, etc.) then it requires additional licenses.
That being said, I know IBI provides for all different sorts of wacky licensing agreements, so I refer back to the original comment of checking with your sales rep.

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Regards,

Darin


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WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex
Data: DB2/UDB, Adabas, SQL Server Output: HTML,PDF,EXL2K/07, PS, AHTML, Flex
WF Client: 77 on Linux w/Tomcat
 
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