Re: NUPS license calculations

The short answer for NUPS is that your application will have to track (and you will have to be able to justify). You will still need to calculate per processor minimums. If the aim is to save money it is extremely unlikely that you will achieve that. If this is an internet facing app then every new user counts (and you have to track them).

On Mon, May 6, 2019, 19:58 Sundar Mahadevan <sundarmahadevan82_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks all for your response. Are there any other tables other than
> v$session that I should use for NUP calculation exercise?
>
> On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 6:51 AM Hemant K Chitale <hemantkchitale_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> No. The database has no knowledge of Named Users --- unless every user
>> authorised to connect to the database (either through a Client-Server app
>> or an N-tier architecture) has *his/her own, personal,* database account.
>>
>> On Sat, 4 May 2019, 03:24 Sundar Mahadevan, <sundarmahadevan82_at_gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Franck for your response. I agree with you. I had the wrong
>>> wording there. I intended to say NUP users and not database users.
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 12:18 PM Franck Pachot <franck_at_pachot.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Sundar,
>>>> The NUP+ license has nothing to do with the database users. With NUP
>>>> you count the end-users. Some examples:
>>>> - you have an HR application that is used by the HR team of your
>>>> company where there are 10 people -> that's 10 NUP. Whether they connect
>>>> with their own user (client/server) or a common account (connection pool)
>>>> has nothing to do with that.
>>>> - you have two salespeople who use the application from their PC,
>>>> laptop, mobile,... through an application server with 150 connections to
>>>> 150 database users -> that's still 2 NUP
>>>> -> you are a university with 20000 students, teachers, and alumni and
>>>> the database application is accessed through public internet but with a
>>>> login portal that gives access only to those 20000 people -> that's 20000
>>>> NUP
>>>> -> this application has some pages that show some data from the
>>>> database on a public page without login -> that cannot be licensed as NUP
>>>> as you cannot count the users
>>>> -> you are a small software vendor with 2 developers but the marketing
>>>> publishes everywhere that you have 100 developers just to show off...
>>>> that's 2 NUP but there are good chances that you get an audit because LMS
>>>> think you need 100.
>>>>
>>>> Hope this help. I recommend that you read your contract and the
>>>> official documents from LMS.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Franck.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 8:19 PM Sundar Mahadevan <
>>>> sundarmahadevan82_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>> Greetings of the day. I am working on gathering information on our
>>>>> current license usage. We have NUPS based license and I found v$license
>>>>> table containing current concurrent users, concurrent users high watermark
>>>>> along with cpu count (Database versions 9i through 11g on Solaris and 12c
>>>>> on Linux). Is it safe to assume that the v$license info carries info since
>>>>> the last database restart considering it is a v$ view? The reason behind
>>>>> this question is that my company moved from processor based license to NUPS
>>>>> 8 years or so back and the user base was high during the processor based
>>>>> license and after company reorg, switched to NUPS due to smaller user base.
>>>>> Are there any other tables that contain the user info? Thanks for your time
>>>>> and assistance.
>>>>>
>>>>

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