Re: queries on licences

1. What is the typical ratio of users to licenses in a concurrent licensing scheme?

Oracle no longer has a concurrent user licensing scheme. Its either named user or UPU (which has also changed to no. of CPUs, I believe)

2. How does Oracle keep track of the licenses?

You can keep track of user licenses by setting LICENSE_MAX_USERS init parameter. However, this will not track your named user licenses if one Oracle username is used by multiple physical users.

3. Suppose someone logs in and does not do any transaction, will it be counted as a used license?

As said above, concurrent user licensing is no longer used.

4. Does Oracle logs you off if you don't do any transaction for time? Is there a time in the day like mid-night when the users are automatically logged off?

There is no such time for automatic logoff. If you want to log idle users off you can use profiles with the IDLE_TIME parameter.

You can check Oracle's licensing policy on the Oracle site (if I remember correctly)

HTH, Mandar.
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<P><BR><BR>1. What is the typical ratio of users to licenses in a concurrent licensing
scheme?<BR></P>
<P>Oracle no longer has a concurrent user licensing scheme. Its either named user or
UPU (which&nbsp;has also changed to no. of CPUs, I believe) <BR><BR>2. How does Oracle keep track of the licenses?<BR></P>
<P>You can keep track of user licenses by setting LICENSE_MAX_USERS init parameter.
However, this will not track your named user licenses&nbsp;if one Oracle username is used by multiple physical users.<BR><BR>3. Suppose someone logs in and does not do any transaction, will it be counted as a used license?<BR></P>
<P>As&nbsp;said above, concurrent user licensing is no longer used.</P>
<P>4. Does Oracle logs you off if you don't do any transaction for time? Is there a
time in the day like mid-night when the users are automatically logged off?<BR></P>
<P>There is no such time for automatic logoff. If you want to log idle users off you
can use profiles with the IDLE_TIME parameter.</P>
<P>You can check Oracle's licensing policy on the Oracle site (if I remember
correctly)</P>
<P>HTH,</P>
<P>Mandar.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
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