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A Pervasive PSQL license key allows a fixed number of computers (called a user count) to access a Pervasive PSQL engine concurrently. A license key is a human-readable string of letters and numbers.
The License Administrator utility allows you to apply license keys, remove licenses, and view license information. The utility includes a graphical user interface (GUI) and a command line interface (CLI).
The license key also controls the conditions under which the Pervasive PSQL product permits installation of, or access to, the database engine. The following table summarizes the restrictions based on license key platform. For example, if your license key has a platform of "Win64," you can apply that license to a database engine running only on a Windows 64-bit platform. The license is invalid for Windows 32-bit platforms and for any Linux platform.
Note that separate Pervasive PSQL Server products exist for each bit architecture on each operating system. Pervasive PSQL Workgroup is a 32-bit product that runs only on Windows.
Each license specifies a user count. A user count allows the specified number of computers to connect to the Pervasive PSQL database engine concurrently. Users are counted by network address. The IP address is used for TCP/IP; the IPX address is used for SPX/IPX.
Each computer that accesses Pervasive PSQL as a client counts as one user. Multiple applications on a single client computer are counted as one user, not separate users. Each Terminal Server session also counts as one user.
Collectively, all applications that access the database engine, use the same network protocol and address, and run on the same machine as the database engine count as one user.
If one application uses TCP/IP and another application uses SPX/IPX, two licenses are counted if both applications run on the same machine. Similarly, if a machine contains multiple network cards, a user is counted for each unique network address being used.
Each terminal server client session with the database engine counts as one user. Collectively, all applications that access the database engine and run on the same machine as the database engine also count as one user.
Your user count licenses must be sufficient for the number of users accessing the database engine. For example, suppose that you have a user license for 20 users and your application runs on the same machine as the database engine. The application itself counts as one user. The database engine prohibits more than 19 terminal server client sessions from accessing the database engine concurrently (19 + 1 = 20). This applies whether the users connect through terminal server sessions or remote database sessions.
A user count is obtained in the form of a software license key issued by Pervasive Software, or by your application vendor if the Pervasive PSQL database engine is embedded in an application.
The Pervasive PSQL Server engine includes a temporary trial license that allocates a fixed user count. The trial license expires within a specified period and cannot be deleted. The Pervasive PSQL Workgroup engine includes a trial license. The trail license cannot be deleted.
Please contact Pervasive Software or your application vendor to purchase an additional user count.
You increase the user count by applying a license key. A user count is applied immediately when you use the GUI or the CLI.
Note the restrictions on license keys listed in Table 4-1.
Pervasive.SQL 2000i and prior releases use a different type of license. License Administrator automatically detects the database engine version to which you want to apply a license. For Pervasive.SQL 2000i and prior releases, you must use the legacy utility, User Count Administrator, to work with the older license type. User Count Administrator is installed as part of the prior release's database engine.
Refer to the Pervasive PSQL documentation of the prior release for instructions on how to use User Count Administrator.
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