NAV 2013 license and NAS

_mon_

In previous versions, licence information usually says:
X users.
1 NAS user.

In NAV 2013 i don´t understand how does it work:
Perpetual Full User: 3

Maximum No. of NAS (NAV Application Servers) including one from the Basepack/General Ledger module)

Application Server......: 2

What does it mean?
3 users, but if i launch NAS, there will only be possible to work with two users, it´s ok?

MarkHamblin

From what I've seen, if you use the NAS it takes a user license (which makes sense, since there is no "NAS" license anymore). You can set up the NAS to be a full or limited user, so if you don't need it to do posting or anything too fancy, you could get away with the cheaper limited user for it.

_mon_

Thank you!

ara3n

You can start as many nas session as possible (not nas service). They are not users. Take a look at Jobqueue for example you can start as many job queues (new sessions) that behave just like NAS.

MarkHamblin

ara3n wrote:

You can start as many nas session as possible (not nas service). They are not users. Take a look at Jobqueue for example you can start as many job queues (new sessions) that behave just like NAS.

They're not quite the same as the NAS services: they will only run while the user is logged in, and they appear to time out if they're idle for too long (haven't looked into that last issue at all, but it did seem to be the case in one implementation - there may be configuration or other tricks to avoid it).
So if you need something that runs independently of which users are logged in, or need it to run in the middle of the night, the NAS service is still the solution.

wic

Hello,
so If I read you correctly, one says it takes user sessions, the other one says you can run as many as you want.

So finally, what happens with NAS and do we need to buy users "perpetual" to add NAS sessions?

Thanks a lot for your tips.

Chris

SilverX

Hi,

RTM and the first Platform Updates took a user session for NAS. The behavior has changed however with one of the later builds (don't remember the number). So if you use the latest build, no User Sessions are used for NAS.

Cheers
Carsten

wic

Thanx SilverX,

but in that case, does this mean that you don't need any "licensing" to use the NAS #-o ? And you can use as many instances as you want?

regards - MfG

Chris