Re: NUPS license calculations

Hi Sundar,
The NUP+ license has nothing to do with the database users. With NUP you count the end-users. Some examples:

• you have an HR application that is used by the HR team of your company where there are 10 people -> that's 10 NUP. Whether they connect with their own user (client/server) or a common account (connection pool) has nothing to do with that.
• you have two salespeople who use the application from their PC, laptop, mobile,... through an application server with 150 connections to 150 database users -> that's still 2 NUP -> you are a university with 20000 students, teachers, and alumni and the database application is accessed through public internet but with a login portal that gives access only to those 20000 people -> that's 20000 NUP -> this application has some pages that show some data from the database on a public page without login -> that cannot be licensed as NUP as you cannot count the users -> you are a small software vendor with 2 developers but the marketing publishes everywhere that you have 100 developers just to show off... that's 2 NUP but there are good chances that you get an audit because LMS think you need 100.

> Hi All,
> Greetings of the day. I am working on gathering information on our current
> license usage. We have NUPS based license and I found v$license table
> containing current concurrent users, concurrent users high watermark along
> with cpu count (Database versions 9i through 11g on Solaris and 12c on
> Linux). Is it safe to assume that the v$license info carries info since the
> last database restart considering it is a v$ view? The reason behind this
> question is that my company moved from processor based license to NUPS 8
> years or so back and the user base was high during the processor based
> license and after company reorg, switched to NUPS due to smaller user base.
> Are there any other tables that contain the user info? Thanks for your time
> and assistance.
>

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