Hi Wyatt,
I've saw that the only way to tell TurboFloat server to refresh licence information before the delay in the configuration file was to restart the TF server. This is not very handy.
A suggestion: on the client side, in TurboFloat.DLL, also add an Activate() command so that from the client side it is possible to ask the server to immediately check for new licences on LimeLM servers (without waiting, just a trigger). Then if there is a change in the licence, the "callback" would be triggered as usual.
From a customer and customer-support point of view, this is way easier to tell the customer to "Click the Update Licence button in the 'Licence Form'" than having complex instructions to do on a server, which many do not even have access to it. (This is what we do with TurboActivate and this works well.)
Best regards,Alexandre Leclerc
In the near future we plan to have a "TurboFloat Server Manager" library in which you can control the TFS. For example re-activate the TFS, reload configuration files, monitor leases as they're granted and expire, etc.
We haven't finished it yet. We want to get TF / TFS for Linux and Mac OS X first.
Hi Wyatt,
This really is a great news for it will allow us to create a simple interface to give a very easy way for the customers to manage the licenses, etc. (And reduce our technical interventions at customers' site for licencing changes.)
We will be waiting for this very eagerly because this is already a need. We plan to deploy our solution at large starting Q1 2014, using TurboFloat in many cases, so this will help when this is available.
Best regards,Alexandre Leclerc
Hi Wyatt,
With this interface, will this be possible to also, from the software side, get the pKey that was used to activate TFS?
I know this is sometimes difficult to answer that kind of question but, do you have an expected release date for this module?
Thank you and best regards,Alexandre Leclerc
Hey Alexandre,
With this interface, will this be possible to also, from the software side, get the pKey that was used to activate TFS?
Yes.
I know this is sometimes difficult to answer that kind of question but, do you have an expected release date for this module?
Hmm... hopefully before the end of February. We've got a lot of work between now and then, but I think we can do it.
Hi Wyatt,
All this is good news!
Even something around March would be great. (I do not expect to have time to implement the missing features that would need this module before March - but most probably around that time.) I'll check the API page in that time.
Best regards,Alexandre Leclerc
Hi Wyatt,
Just had another thought on this very nice administration module.
When we install our solution on a customer server we usually do the following:- Server setup to install shared files, SQL engine and start SQL engine.- The customer, from his PC, opens the shared folder on the server to launch the "client" setup to install the "client" application on his PC.- Finally, when the "client" application starts and creates the DB files, etc.
Very easy for us and for the customer. No trifling on the server nor on "client" side.
Now we are glad to introduce TurboFloat Server as our licence manager. But actually, it makes it a little bit harder to install on the server.
- I thought it would be great to be able to install TurboFloat Server (-i) without any prior activation (-a="").- Then later, when the first "Client" tries to connect to TFS, it would receive a special code "Server is up but not activated, so no lease available."- Then, due to super ingenious coding techniques, we would ask the user for his activation key and remotely activate TFS with the administration module. Then we can ask a lease again and all is well.
There would be nothing to do on server side except "Next, next, next" on the setup program. After, the user, comfortably sited before his PC, simply install and input the TFS key and voil
That would be the "nec plus ultra" of server setup for us.
Best regards,Alexandre Leclerc
Server_LicenseHi Wyatt,
Could you please give us information about the solutions you have implemented to refresh the server license on customer side.
Currently, the only two ways to "fresh a license" (aka reactivate) a TurboFloat Server activation is either have them re-activate by command line:
https://wyday.com/limelm/help/turbofloat-server/#activate
Or the TFS will do it automatically every X days:
https://wyday.com/limelm/help/turbofloat-server/#config-isgenuine
