Licensing quesiton

[Guest]

Ok, just to clear things up because i cant quite understand it....

If i buy a 5 licence

Does that mean i can have 5 accounts
Or a maximum of 5 users connected (and 20 accounts) at the same time to the server?

[ericsink]

The terms are explained on the order form:

https://store.sourcegear.com/sgstore/or ... mily=vault

which says:

"Each Vault User License allows you to have one active named user account on one Vault server."

Which means if you buy 5 licenses, you can have 5 accounts. It does not mean that you can have a maximum of 5 users connected at the same time.

[mbabcock]

So assuming that we're not all checking files in/out the entire time, a 5-user license sounds adequate as opposed to having to purchase the 10-user license (essentially wasting resources because we only have 6 developers)??

TIA,
--Michael

[ericsink]

So assuming that we're not all checking files in/out the entire time, a 5-user license sounds adequate as opposed to having to purchase the 10-user license (essentially wasting resources because we only have 6 developers)??

TIA,
--Michael

Sorry, no. I think the word "active" may be causing some confusion. Let's ignore that word for a moment.

You need one license for each named account on your server. If you have six developers, you will need six named accounts, and you will need six licenses.

The issue of how many people are using Vault concurrently is not relevant to Vault's licensing. Vault is priced and licensed on the basis of one license per named user account.

The word "active" comes into play only because of the fact that accounts can be permanently disabled, thus freeing up a license. This is handy when someone leaves your team and you hire a replacement. You can deactivate the ex-employee's account and add a new account for the replacement employee. In this context, the word "active" simply refers to the issue of whether the account is enabled or disabled. It has nothing to do with the issue of whether an account is currently in use or not.