Hi,

I need some enlightenment.

I have just joined an end-user company using Baan software.

I do not understand the baan license setup.

We have two servers, production and development.
I noticed that their validation keys is the same. Their customer, licence and sequence numbers are the same too. But both the servers have different host names.

Now I noticed both servers also have same number of users, 30 users. I was told they copied baan from prod server to dev server two years ago.

My question is :
1) Doesn't the dev server need to be validated once baan is copied over?
2) How do the dev server still have the same number of license as the prod server? By what I understand, the key will not work once the hostname is different. They must validate the new dev server with maybe 1-2 license only for dev work. But now it seems they have 30 licenses on the dev server and it is working fine. I thought also that they must have 2 different seq numbers and 2 different validation key for the two different servers for it to work.
3) Their license6.1 file also have only one hostname respectively. So they do not have license sharing, right?


I am confused now. Please advise.

Thanks and regards,

Normally you validate each host with a different number. However technically speaking that is not necessary. I assume it depends as well as how things are registered at Baan.
It is possible to share licenses by using the same name in the licence6.2 file.

1. No, the license information is stored outside the ${BSE}. You need to update the license6.2 file and rerun the patch objects session.
2. Depends on what happened in the past. I can not answer that for you. You probably should contact support to check what they have registered.
3. Correct.

Regards,
Han