Idle time kickoff?

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I agree with Sarah! We bought 2 more licenses last year to help solve our
"sitting idle all day" problem. Well, it didn't help much because now 2
more people would "sit idle" all day long! Then we bought Mike Podlin's
time-out utility! IT'S FANTASTIC! It kicked out those "idle all day"
abusers!! Yeah, we had griping and moaning at first about the utility (it
was just a change they had to get use to). But, in 1 year I have only had 2
incidences where people could not get on because of not enough user
licenses! I highly recommend this utility!!

Wendy Bowen
Network Administrator
Schmald Tool & Die, Inc.
(810) 743-1600 ext.323
wpursche@...


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Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 9:58 AM
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Idle time kickoff?


> We bought a utility created by another user on this list which does
exactly
> that. Check out his website to download a demo version
> http://members.aol.com/mpodlin/index.html. There is a readme file that
> contains information about how to setup the program and also an order form
> to order the full version. It was $100 when we bought it and has been
well
> worth it because we have not had to buy any additional licenses...
>
>
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Hi all,


Is there such a thing as a setting to boot people out of vantage if
their idle time is too long? We are running out of licenses and
have found that people are logging in and then just keeping vantage
open all day till they logout. After numerous warnings to these
people they still keep on doing it. Any ideas?

Lucas Gourley
Grimm Brothers Plastics
3
We bought a utility created by another user on this list which does exactly
that. Check out his website to download a demo version
http://members.aol.com/mpodlin/index.html. There is a readme file that
contains information about how to setup the program and also an order form
to order the full version. It was $100 when we bought it and has been well
worth it because we have not had to buy any additional licenses...
4
There is also the free ClientTimeout Utility provided by Progress. It is not as powerful as Mike Podlin's routine, but works fine for general use. Mike's can be configured on a per-user basis. With the Progress utility, you set one timeout for everyone (ie. 30 minutes). I forget now where you look to get the Progress utility, but Vantage support could point you in the right direction.

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics

----- Original Message -----
From: lgourley@...
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 9:39 AM
Subject: [Vantage] Idle time kickoff?


Hi all,


Is there such a thing as a setting to boot people out of vantage if
their idle time is too long? We are running out of licenses and
have found that people are logging in and then just keeping vantage
open all day till they logout. After numerous warnings to these
people they still keep on doing it. Any ideas?

Lucas Gourley
Grimm Brothers Plastics


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There is a ClientTimeOut feature in progress. We have ours in the
progress\bin\progress.ini in the startup section. It looks like this, it's
the fifth line. We don't have ours in the registry and it works fine. You
may need to pop it in the registry and run the Progress Network Client
Install on each workstation if it doesn't want to work.

[Startup]
V6Display=no
;ImmediateDisplay=yes
;MultitaskingInterval=100
ClientTimeOut=15
DefaultFont=MS Sans Serif, size=8
DefaultFixedFont=Courier New, size=8
DLC=d:\EPICOR\PROGRESS
Use-3D-Size=Yes
PROBUILD=d:\EPICOR\PROGRESS\PROBUILD
PROPATH=.,d:\EPICOR\PROGRESS\gui,d:\EPICOR\PROGRESS,d:\EPICOR\PROGRESS\bin,d
:\EPICOR\PROGRESS\PROBUILD\EUCAPP\EUC.PL,d:\EPICOR\PROGRESS\PROBUILD\EUCAPP




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The following is a knowledge base entry for the Clienttimeout feature from
progress.

KnowledgeBase number: 18415
Creation Date: 11/25/98
Modified Date: 11/25/98
Modified Date: 12/06/99
This document applies to: ClientTimeout Parameter
Version and Release Number: 7.3B + NT database server products

Summary: In version 7.3B, a new startup parameter, ClientTimeout, was
introduced. This parameter allows the server process to determine
whether a client has been inactive for a specified period of time, and
if so, the server disconnects the client and backs out any related
active transactions. The parameter does not work as currently
documented, however the functionality is there. This is not available
as an online startup parameter. There is a doc bug entered for 9.0B
and earlier releases. There is also an enhancement request submitted
to make this a startup parameter that will be accepted at the command
line.

Step by step details:

The parameter uses the following syntax:

Clienttimeout=n

where n is the number of minutes a client can be idle before the
server disconnects it.

This Clienttimeout parameter can be put into the registry in one of
the following keys, by default this key will not exist so will need to
be created.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\PSC\PROGRESS\<VERSION>\STARTUP
or
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PSC\PROGRESS\<VERSION>\STARTUP

where <version> is the current version (e.g. 8.3A).

Regardless of how you start the server, command line or ProControl,
the ClientTimeout parameter can be set in the progress.ini file or the
registry. If the registry key exists, the progress.ini file is
ignored. This means that if the key exists and you want the
ClientTimeout functionality it must be set in the registry. If you
want to use a progress.ini file to set this parameter then you must
remove the registry key. As of version 8.0 of Progress, which
introduced the use of the registry with Progress, and the ini2reg
conversion tool, the registry entries take precedence over the
contents of the ini file.

The -clienttimeout server startup parameter is planned for a future
commercial release, although version and date are not confirmed as
yet. When introduced the existing ClientTimeout parameter will no
longer be valid in the registry or the progress.ini file.

-----Original Message-----
From: lgourley@... [mailto:lgourley@...]
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 8:40 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Idle time kickoff?


Hi all,


Is there such a thing as a setting to boot people out of vantage if
their idle time is too long? We are running out of licenses and
have found that people are logging in and then just keeping vantage
open all day till they logout. After numerous warnings to these
people they still keep on doing it. Any ideas?

Lucas Gourley
Grimm Brothers Plastics



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