A couple questions about implementing a "timeoutall" to the license manager server to help curb our license usage.
1. Are there any parameters to specify pools/users/etc?
2. How does this look on the client end? Does it force close solidworks/edrawings?
3. What would happen if an engineer had an unsaved part open when they hit the idle timer?
Hi Dustin,
With TIMEOUTALL, you can't target specific users or groups.
It is an inactivity timeout and not a forced timeout. If a user is actively using SOLIDWORKS, then the timeout feature does not kick them off.
The inactivity timeout is actually silent to the user. A user will not necessarily know that the timeout has taken their license. It is silently returned to the license pool. If licenses are available when the user returns, then the license will get reclaimed silently. The user would never know it happened, but you can see the activity in the lmgrd.log file.
There are no notifications in SOLIDWORKS unless the last license was snatched up by someone else while you were away. Then, you will get a message that you have no available licenses, you'd get prompted to save, and then you'd have to shut down.
You can tune timeout in seconds. 900 seconds (15 mins) is the minimum. Setting it too low might cause people to lose their licenses while they are away for short breaks. Too high and you are not using your licenses as efficiently as you might. Note: SOLIDWORKS already times out after 2 hours of inactivity without the option.
Hope this helps.
Jeff