Louis,

Each connection represents a license. If one user has five applications open at the same time, they have five connections and are using five licenses.

It is unusual to have a situation where multiple users always have five separate applications open at all times. However, if this is the case, you can use Sesame's ability to run multiple servers to get around your problem. As only one server can open any one application at the same time, this is acceptable under your licensing agreement.

Instead of running one server which serves all five applications, you can run five servers, each of which serves one application. As each server can accept the full number of connections (say 10), each of your 10 users can have all five applications open at all times. The users would need to have shortcuts for each application that connected them to the appropriate server. You can use a different rootdirs.ini file for each server to make sure that each server can only open its intended application. Note that when I say 5 servers, I mean 5 instances of Sesame Server, not 5 different computers. All the Sesame Servers can be running on the same computer.

You can contact Technical Support for more detailed instructions on setting this up. 

Also, since Sesame allows a single client to open multiple Tabs, thereby allowing to, for example, both Add and Search within the same client, some cases of needing multiple connections may not be required after all.

Just a reminder that a Database and an Application are not the same things in Sesame.  One application can have multiple databases. 

The license count is for the number of Appicatiions that are open, not the number of databases.

Hello Louis,

You need to specify the port numbers for sesame to operate on in order to run more than one server. The default ports are 20000:20001 so your first server will be running on those ports.

ex.
C:\Sesame\Program\sesame.exe -server RBASERVER:20002:20003

So the second server is going to run on ports 20002:20003. You will need to put these same port numbers in the client icon as well.

Other than that you appear to be going about it the correct way.

-Ray

Ray:

Further to the above, do the client icons have to make reference to the port #'s ?

Thanks,

Louis

Hello Louis,

Yes a client that is going to connect to server #1 syntax will look like this
C:\Sesame\Program\sesame.exe -client RBASERVER:20000:20001

A client that is going to connect to #2 server the syntax would be

C:\Sesame\Program\sesame.exe -client RBASERVER:20002:20003

-Ray

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Ray's gone for the day, but, yes. You will see two Server windows.