lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) (03/24/89)
I have been asked to determine specifications and software to provide some sort of centralized control of access to software. By control, the primary criteria at this juncture is to prevent more than X number of users from using the software at any one time. Now, I would guess that in the increasingly prevalent environment of NFS, RFS, etc. that this is becoming more and more of a concern. I have found in discussions with several vendors that many of them have not decided how they were going to handle file server based software which is to be used by a large population spread across many machines. But it is beginning to be resolved on an individual software case by case basis. Does anyone out there know of any existing software, either public or commercial, which provides these facilities? Or for that matter, articles to read, books to examine, etc? I am probably going to end up writing some minimalistic package if I dont find something in a relatively short time frame (next week or so). And it will probably meet my short range needs without a lot of error recovery, etc. But I would rather find someone doing work on this and at least discuss some of my concerns and see how folks are resolving some of these issues. Thanks! -- Larry W. Virden 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 (614) 864-8817 75046,606 (CIS) ; LVirden (ALPE) ; osu-cis!n8emr!lwv (UUCP) osu-cis!n8emr!lwv@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (INTERNET) The world's not inherited from our parents, but borrowed from our children.