Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

    
    Gil,
    
    >>        1. Is this a seperate product of ALL-IN-1 3.0 or is the
    >>           functionality supplied with ALL-IN-1 and only a license
    >>	       needed ?
    
    The functionality is supplied when you purchase ALL-IN-1 V3.0, however,
    you need a license to enable DSO (called A1-DIST-SHR). Note that the
    license enables the server on a particular node to EXPORT information.
    Therefore, if you're in an environment with NODEA and NODEB running
    ALL-IN-1 V3.0, and NODEB is only sharing drawers with NODEA, then the
    license needs to be installed on NODEB. If sharing is to occur between
    both nodes, then they both need the license.
    
    
    
    >>       2. Could there any language specific points to the distributed
    >>	   sharing option, for example in HEBREW we have a problem of right to
    >>	   left that crated problems with drawer naming, could this have an
    >>	   effect on the sharing option ?
    
    
    I have used the DSO option on multilingual systems, but only with
    English, German, and Norwegian - I haven't tried some of the other
    languages which might cause potential problems. Having said that, I
    haven't heard of any particular problems, so perhaps you'll be the
    first to try this out !
    
    
    Kevin.
    
    
    

    
    re language specific problems with DSO
    
    The code for DSO and non-DSO is identicle, the only difference is
    that at startup the server sets an internal flag telling it whether
    to allow incoming connections from other servers.
    
    about the only problem I can think of with DSO, and not sure if this
    would occur anyway or if it would be a problem, is if you have a 
    Hebrew system connect via server-server connect to a non-Hebrew system.
    I doubt it would be a problem since I would guess all language 
    specific character juggling is done at the UI level.
    
    --Bob
    

    ok, how about this question - a 3 node cluster, all nodes run ALL-IN-1
    3.0-1. they want to install ALL-IN-1 Distributed Sharing Option on 1
    node of this cluster.
    
    when a user on another system tries to access a shared drawer on the 
    above cluster, they would have to select the shared drawer as 
    
    		node_with_DSO::[etc...]
    
    will this work? or does DSO need to be installed on ALL nodes of a
    cluster?
    
    	ann
    
    

    
    I don't know, this is more of an LMF question. The DSO needs to be 
    loaded and registered (it is a license), when the FCS starts up it 
    checks using LMF calls. I believe (but not sure) that you have to
    load it on each node in teh cluster for it to be effective. I also
    believe (again, not sure) that a reboot will load all registered
    licenses, hence putting the DSO on all nodes.
    
    Any LMF/licensing God-abouts around?
    
    --Bob
    

    
    	You can explicitly specify in the LMF database that this licence
    	should only be loaded on a given node, or you can add commands
    	to startup that load it on the right node.
    
    	I'd have thought the FCS would be quite happy to work in this
    	environment.
    
    Regards,
    Paul

    
    The FCS will be quite happy with whatever LMF does. it simply makes
    a call to see if the license is loaded/registered, if so, it turns
    on incoming server-server connects, if not, it rejects them. Nothing
    more.
    
    --bob