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NySpiro
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How many WF clients (on different servers) can you have pointing to 1 WF Server? Is pointing at the WF server just a matter of changing in Administrator’s Console?

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That is a licensing issue. But you can have many. It helps with load balancing, clustering, backup and recovery, etc...




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Does WF Client need to be installed on WF Server if the WF Client is pointing to it already from 2 Different Servers?
 
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TexasStingray
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That all depends on what products you install and where the web server resides, where the spplication server resides. But generally you install the WebFOCUS Client on the box where the web server resides, and the application server resides. it the both reside on the same box then only 1 installation is needed.




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Darin Lee
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As Stingray already noted, a separate license is required for every installation of the WF client, but the location of the client install has little to do with the location of the server install.- it just requires a web/app server on that box. A new client install does not require any additional installation or configuration on the server side.


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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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As per my understanding, the licensing is only for Webfocus Server not for Webfocus client. You can have more than one Webfocus Client for one Webfocus server.

The Webfocus Client should reside where your webserver is installed.

NySpiro, to answer your question...pointing Webfocus Client to Webfocus Server has to be done in odin.cfg file OR in Webfocus Client Administration Console.

Hope this helps,


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TexasStingray
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Check with your Sales Rep. I think you will find that every client also requires a license.




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Darin Lee
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Licensing varies at different sites, but it's pretty standard that each WF client requires its own license. As far as I know it's always been that way.


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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You guys are correct.

http://techsupport.informationbuilders.com/tech/wbf/wbf_faq_024.html


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Brian Suter
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You can have as many WebFOCUS clients pointing to a single server as you have licensed clients. You always install the WF Client where your java app server is. The easiest set up is to have IBI_HTML alias and the APPROOT alias served up from the same client install. It just simplifies your life. (Some app servers like tomcat can handle serving those files up --- your webserver simply needs to pass all those aliases to the app server).


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