Citrix Licensing Using Different Products
| Andrew Wood | Hi,
In the XP days there was the concept of a server license and a connection license. So you bought your serve license (S,A,E) and then connection licenses as appropriate. Now, there just seems to be a connection license, and you can select any type of server. My question is - if you have a farm and decide to set your main servers with ‘A’ and zone data collectors with ‘E’, and then not publish an application from the DCs would this go against the license agreement? tia. |
| jpitsch609 | the servers still pull a server license. Features such as RM, IM, etc rely on the appropriate license. If the license is not there then it will not function correctly.
Jeff |
| Andrew Wood | Does that mean its still possible to purchase a server license? |
| jpitsch609 | No it’s not. Technically you never truly bought server licenses. it’s based on the license file. the license file is either an E, A, or S type of file. If you bought E, then you wouldn’t be able to use A or S. same for the others.
Jeff |
| Andrew Wood | I believe I see -
So in the brave new world of MPS4 licensing there is no concept of ’server’ and ‘connection’ merely ‘connections’ If I build my servers and set them be advanced serves uses connecting to them will attempt to retrieve an advanced connection license. If I set them to be ‘E’ then they will happily sit as an ‘E’ server - but unless I have ‘E’ connection licenses when a user connects, connection will be refused? |
| jpitsch609 | First off, this isn’t brave new MPS4. This licensing was introduced in PS3.
Second, the servers will NOT sit happily as an E. Your license file is set as enterprise, standard or advanced. The servers point to a license server with a file. the file is set to one of the 3 editions. The server will only be what the license file is set for. If your license file is for enterprise and you set the server to advanced, it won’t function. Vice versa as well, if you have an advanced license and you set the server to enterprise, you WON’T get the enterprise features. The concept of server licenses is alive and well, just not in quite the same way. Jeff |
| Andrew Wood | I appreciate your replies Jeff, apologies if I sounded trite about new brave worlds 
Unfortunately, I think my problem may stemmed from my eval license codes. I want to have a ZDC with some WMI monitoring on. No users will connect to this server; its in a large farm supporting a large amount of users. My farm servers will be ‘A’. Thus and therefore, the license server will only have connection licenses for A. So E on the ZDC, A on the servers - no problems. Thats odd I thought, why should that be? But now I look again my eval lab has A,S and E codes. When I do the same thing with some NFR codes (just E) I get messages in the event log and a large value in the load balance option. That said, the server still works - but I expect thats just the grace period kicking in and it’d grind to a halt eventually. Thanks for your help. |
