Re: [Webct-admin] license keyed to secondary IP address of machine
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From: Derek D. <di...@un...> - 2001-09-07 22:34:44
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So in our case WebCT v3.1 is running on the "primary" IP address and thus that license works. Our v3.6CE is running on a "secondary" IP so it works, too. Both instances are in production. OK, glad it works. :) -- *********************************************************************** Derek Diget E-mail: der...@wm... Voice:616.387.5474 Western Michigan University - Kalamazoo Michigan USA - www.wmich.edu/ Office of Information Technology - UNIX support - www.wmich.edu/unix/ *********************************************************************** On Sep 7, 2001 at 17:19 -0500, ma...@mj... wrote: =>How license keys work depends upon your version. => =>Campus Edition license key is not IP based but domain based. We =>had to do this for load-balancing. =>The bulk of its license protection is in the signed contract for CE =>(basically each license only covers a single institution, anything =>else is custom quote, at least that's how I've heard explained to =>me. As usual with this kind of stuff the account reps know best). => =>For SE and previous versions, it's based on primary IP address. => =>The license key is only for production servers. If you're running a =>test server you don't need a license key. => =>Mark => =>On 7 Sep 01, at 17:54, Derek Diget wrote: =>> =>> Weird, Western Michigan University is running one box, with two IP =>> addresses for the two instances of WebCT we are running. The =>> behaviour you describe below is not what we see. We are running 3.1 =>> and 3.6 on Solaris 8 and have two seperate keys for the corresponding =>> IP addresses. (Both instances are from a fresh install.) =>> =>> On Sep 7, 2001 at 08:32 +1000, Peter Love wrote: =>> =>I've always simply requested the keys for the extra servers using =>> the =>IP number of the box (which appears to be what the license =>> checker =>looks at). The fact that you then listen to another IP has =>> never =>mattered. => =>E.g., we currently host three different WebCT =>> installations on the same =>box. Each listens to a different IP, but =>> the license keys all have the =>same IP number. => =>One implication =>> of this ought to fairly obvious - so one day the =>license checker =>> will probably get changed - but so far its always =>worked like this =>> (at least with standard edition). =>> |