Temporary activation from TurboFloat Server

There is one thing that we would find very useful.

It would be great if the TurboFloat Server could act like a mini activation server and authorise a machine to work off network for a limited period, using up one of it's licences in the process. A user going to work at home could then activate their laptop and the licence would automatically cease to be available on the network until the user checked it back in or the licence expired. I would have thought that 14 days would be the maximum for this. This type of working is becoming more and more common and is the biggest licensing challenge we face.

Is there a suggested way to achieve this, preferably without us, the vendor, being involved in the checking out and checking in of the licence? If not, any chance of providing this in the future? It would be a brilliant feature of TurboActivate/TurboFloat.

I don't really understand what you're asking. Here's what I see the situation as:

A customer is using a laptop at work, and on that laptop the customer is using your app with TurboFloat Library connecting to a TFS instance on the work network?

Is that right so far?

And from that you want to know what happens when a customer bring that work laptop home, correct?

Did I get all of that right? If so, then the answer is pretty straight forward: either configure the TurboFloat Server to allow connections from specific whitelisted IPs (e.g. the customer's home), or have the customer use a VPN to access the work network.

Sam wrote:> A customer is using a laptop at work, and on that laptop the customer is using your> app with TurboFloat Library connecting to a TFS instance on the work network?> > Is that right so far?Yes, exactly.

> And from that you want to know what happens when a customer bring that work laptop> home, correct?Yes , but also to a place with no internet connection. He could be working on a train or visiting his own client.

So I would like to give the user a TurboActivate licence on a temporary basis and reduce the floating licence count on the TurboFloat server. Now we could do this ourselves by enabling a TA product key and reducing the TFS floating licence activation count.

But this means:1. The customer has to contact us to do this, that's not always possible if it's late on a Friday and the user wants to finish some work on the weekend. Would be much better if they could do it themselves.2. The floating licence count reduction wouldn't be effective until the TF server contacted the LimeLM servers which could be a few days away.

That's why the ideal solution would be if the TF server could issue a TurboActivate key itself and reduce its floating licence count.

Does that make sense?

That's an interesting idea. We'll definitely think about it. In the meantime the obvious solution is to sell an additional license for people a that company that need hardware-locked licensing instead of floating licensing.

Just to clarify, this sounds like a floating license with a lease that expires after a nominal amount of time, unless it is expired earlier by the user when they rejoin the network that Turbofloat is on.

AutoCAD network licensing works this way. If only they understood the concept of pretty URLs... https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2015/ENU/Autodesk-Licensing/files/GUID-1234F0C4-2BD2-4BAB-B0E2-ADD1385D1C2E-htm.html

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Do you mean a long least time at http://wyday.com/limelm/help/turbofloat-server/#config-lease ?

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