Logon/Logoff Control
License compliance is a complex, time consuming issue for most IT departments. In the best case, you invest the time and control licensing costs for the company. In the worst case, user and login management falls behind and there are expensive, surprise costs to regain compliance. TailorPro offers a stand-alone module to effectively manage user logins and license compliance in a Progress environment, entirely through configuration.
Concurrent Users
If you’re managing users against a concurrent license count, TailorPro’s module allows you to do the following:
- Control the total logons allowed.
- Control the total ‘live user’ logons.
- Manage license counts including partial-tally sessions, e.g. bar code readers.
- Control the number of concurrent logons allowed to individual users or classes of users.
- Logoff idle sessions, regardless of the screen, with unique parameters for individual users or groups.
- Monitor user activity in one or more Progress databases.
- Keep a permanent, searchable record of user logons and logoffs, regardless of which UI they use to access the application.
Named Users
As user interfaces become less tied to specific database sessions, vendors are beginning to license by named users. This can be nearly impossible to manage if you are relying on the database session information to identify users. Perhaps their ID is no longer used to connect to the database, or they connect to the database multiple times as they open a variety of screens. The database log file becomes difficult to tie to licensed users.
If you’re converting from concurrent licenses to named, it is critical to accurately purge long stale users so you aren’t forced to buy them licenses. Additionally you need to easily identify users logging into multiple databases and count them only once. The TailorPro searchable records of user logons and logoffs, across multiple databases, regardless of UI used, allows you to both prepare for and manage named user licensing effectively.