Originally shared by Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch)

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Originally shared by Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch)

I switched “my” (meaning the license my employer bought for me) Delphi “Named User License” with subscription to a “Network Named User License” in April 2018. The rationale behind that was, that it happened far too often that I needed yet another Delphi…
http://blog.dummzeuch.de/2018/07/14/some-information-about-embarcadero-licence-center/

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  1. Jennifer PowellJuly 14, 2018 at 10:43 AM

    Good you posted this info. I believe this resolves the perpetual license issue just from a different approach.

    So if one buys a perpetual license, then one year of support is included, and during that time be sure to switch to a NNU license if that's not already the case.

    Frankly, a license bump should not be considered a "support incident" anyway but merely an administrative one.




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  2. Brett WiltonJuly 14, 2018 at 6:05 PM

    So could you run the ELC server on a cloud VM but only run it when needed or is it check periodically ?

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  3. Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch)July 15, 2018 at 12:04 AM

    Brett Wilton the IDE tries to connect to it every 60 seconds. If it fails, it starts the 30 days countdown. But I would not dare to run an ELC anywhere with direct internet connection.

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  4. Brett WiltonJuly 15, 2018 at 1:02 AM

    Thomas Mueller thanks for the info, was just thinking of the aspect of being away and how it might work. Sounds like VPN or ssh tunnel back would be the way to go.

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  5. Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch)July 15, 2018 at 1:51 AM

    Brett Wilton an alternative would be to take the VM with the ELC with you. That of course is only possible, if you are the only developer. (Or if you set up one VM instance of ELC per developer which would also be an option. I'm not sure whether the license allows that, but on the other hand, why not?) Or even install the ELC on your laptop (which I would not recommend).

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  6. Uwe RaabeJuly 15, 2018 at 3:40 AM

    One note about ELC phoning home: This is also needed when your subscription license is extended to a new version. So when f.i. 10.3 will be released, you have to refresh your license at the ELC server, create new slip files and import those in all your installations (or at least those where the new version is going to be installed) using the local license manager. If you provide the slip files during installation of the new version it will take care to put that into the local license manager.

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