What is the Concept of Licensed Concurrent Users in NAV?

ishwarsharma

Hi,

I am unable to understand the concept of concurrent licensed users in NAV 2013 and later versions.

My NAV 2016 developer's license has 6 full user CAL.

I logged in to NAV RTC with User A's ID on my machine, and I am also able to login to the same database through a different machine using User A's ID when 5 other users (B,C,D,E,F) are already logged in to this database (and these users have opened multiple sessions) on their respective machines.

In a nutshell, 7 users are working on 7 different machines when the License permits only 6 concurrent users at a time.

These 7 users are :

User A - Machine 1

User A - Machine 2

User B - Machine 3

.

.

.

User F - Machine 7.

Please can anyone explain this, this is a bit confusing for me as the concept is still not to clear to me.

Thanks.

Phenno

Same user can be connected multiple times and will be count as one. Don't know if that applies to situation where the same user is connected to different instaces for the same NAV database.

davmac1

it is meant to count concurrent user ids,which it appears to be doing for you since you logged in twice.

Phenno

Same user can be connected multiple times and will be count as one. Don't know if that applies to situation where the same user is connected to different instaces for the same NAV database.

ishwarsharma

davmac1 wrote: »

it is meant to count concurrent user ids,which it appears to be doing for you since you logged in twice.

Okay. But if this thing is possible then any no. of users can work with the same user ID on different machines and we might never get the error of No. of logins. Is it?

Phenno

Yes, in theory, but company will have number od problems, such as columns dissapearing/appearing, no security could be set, logs would be unuseful, etc...

ishwarsharma

Thanks for your advice Phenno