NetHasp Timeout

[Josh Kinney -Elite Engineering]

Is there a way to set a timeout due to inactiity with the NetHasp?

 

It seems Alladin's software is pretty lame when it comes to control over the hasp.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

-Josh

[JAMMAN]

I think I get it... so if the 4th person of 4 seats wanders off to take a dump and ends up talking with the general manager for 2 hours, someone can hop on and post something?

 

When I open up the 3rd instance of my 2 seats it warns me and will not let me post... but I can still draw and toolpath AND save my work. Hope this is the way it is supposed to be and not a bug because I like it.

[Josh Kinney -Elite Engineering]

I have 3 seats of Mill Level 3 and one seat of Lathe 1.

 

If I open MasterCam and a seat of Mill is available it will check out Mill until I check out Lathe. If no seats of Mill are available but a seat of Lathe is then it will check out lathe. If non are available I cannot even open MasterCam.

 

-Josh

[Guest]

Are you using switched to control what you are checking out?

 

Look in the help file for it

 

"C:\Program Files\mcamx6\Mastercam.exe" /M3 /NoL

 

That would launch a mill 3 but no lathe

 

"C:\Program Files\mcamx6\Mastercam.exe" /L1 /NoM

 

That would launch a Lathe 1 but no mill

[BTA]

We get hasp disconnected with X6 all the time for some reason. Hasp has never been out.

[Josh Kinney -Elite Engineering]

Are you using switched to control what you are checking out?

 

Look in the help file for it

 

"C:\Program Files\mcamx6\Mastercam.exe" /M3 /NoL

 

That would launch a mill 3 but no lathe

 

"C:\Program Files\mcamx6\Mastercam.exe" /L1 /NoM

 

That would launch a Lathe 1 but no mill

 

I know that trick and it's very useful.

 

My issue is no time out due to inactivity. Pro/E license manager has this feature and its great. It will time out and upon return you can try to recheck out a license, if non is available then save and close.

 

-Josh

[Guest]

Is the Nethasp on a server? Is it a busy server?

 

Have you adjusted the timeouts in the nethasp.ini

 

Have you installed all the latest available drivers and licenseanget

 

Have you made sure port 475 is open on the server

 

[Josh Kinney -Elite Engineering]

I spent time with a support guy from Alladin and it's my understanding the timeout is for how long it looks for the hasp. Not inactivity.

 

Not sure what the license Agent is?

 

Everything works great, just would like a time out.

[Chris In-House Solutions]

I believe the default time out time is 36 hours which is fairly long to wait before it kicks someone off the seat. A work around to this would be to make a .bat file that ran on the server and restarted the service every 2 hours or however often you wanted it to. The only downside to this would be that it would kick everyone off at whatever time increment you set it to.

[Guest]

Everything works great, just would like a time out.

 

Ahh, now I understand, you WANT a timeout to boot users

 

The solution to use a bat file to start and stop the license manager is a good idea

 

using these commands

 

net start <service name>

 

net stop <service name>

 

and you should likely use the choice command between to give the server a few seconds to stop before issuing the start command again.

[Josh Kinney -Elite Engineering]

I don't want to xxxx off the guy who has an active session for hours on end. He's working. If he loses his license every ten minutes he's gonna be pissed.

 

Other License Servers have this option. Inactive for 10min and your license is gone. Come back and request a new license without saving, closing and reopening a new session. Pro/E even shows who has what license when you come back.

 

-Josh

 

Ps. we can't say p i s s ?

[Guest]

There is no way in the licensing manager to do so, it's all or nothing I believe at this time