Re: Counting users

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

> We have license agreements to use our software and as part of that we count
>  the number of users using the software. This works fine, but our customers
>  want to be able to sign onto multiple sessions on the same terminal and not
>  be counted more than once.  If they're using "dumb" terminals to accomplish
>  this, I don't know how to tell the difference between a user signing onto a
>  single terminal 5 times and a user signing onto 5 terminals.

Many years ago I was bitching to IBM & manufacturers of various twinax 
terminals, & I finally quit when the world began to move to PCs, that there 
needed to be on the foot of twinax sessions an ICON that said HOW MANY 
SESSIONS are currently open at this terminal.  I felt that the device's 
configuration connection to addresses on the port could track which were 
signed on & active & which were not.

The reason I wanted this was the users at the low end of the scale of 
attentiveness to the details of what they were doing.  They would have 
multiple sessions open & forget what they had open, get to then end of their 
work day & sign off the session in front of them & power off the terminal & 
KABOOM the software update jobs open on the other sessions, or they did not 
power off & left the other jobs open & here we want to do backup after they 
gone home.

So what I wanted was a NUMBER on bottom of screen meaning you have 
05 sessions currently active ... please wind that number down to 00 before 
you go home or power off this sucker.

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)


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