[38] in Layered Athena
Re: License servers and Iron
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Wed Sep 1 14:31:25 1993
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 14:28:14 -0400
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com>
To: nschmidt@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: layered-athena@Athena.MIT.EDU, cec@Athena.MIT.EDU, gjackson@Athena.MIT.EDU,
If you're looking for alternate models to suggest to vendors for
their license servers, you can consider the one used by Atris's
ClearCase product... there are a list of *users* who have priority for
a given product. If a user not on the list wants to use the product,
they can if there is a free license available, subject to being
preempted if a priority user comes along.
Then you could come up with a Moira-driven way of feeding the config
file to the license server based on the contents of one or more Moira
lists; the users in the class which are using, say, AutoCAD, for
course work have priority over others, regardless of whether they are
using an Athena workstation or a layered-athena workstation.
- Bill
