Michael,
We're getting on well with our two (Linux & Win64) servers - currently offering 47 dongles to 10 users.
Something you may have already considered and rejected, but which I feel may be of benefit to those with large number of attached devices is a method of grouping 'like' dongles.
For example, we have 9 different types of software license dongles attached, with between 2 and 7 dongles of each type. In order to identify them, I have used nicknames so they currently show as:
...
Dongle 1
Dongle 2 (In use by you)
Dongle 3
Dongle 4
ZRT 1
ZRT 2
ZRT 3
...
Users will regularly use/un-use the licenses throughout a shift. To prevent a user having a window open which is over half the height of their screen in order to see all the dongles listed (rather than scrolling down), could a grouping method be divised so that, as in the above scenario, it shows as:
+Dongle (1/4)
+ZRT (0/3)
where the + is an expansion box to list the dongles separately as above, and the (1/4) and (0/3) shows how many dongles are in use out of a total.
The grouping could be done by associating a header name to particular ports...??
i.e. GroupDevices=1122 (Dongle),1123(Dongle),1124(Dongle),1125(Dongle),1222(ZRT),1232(ZRT),1234(ZRT)
...just an idea. Or maybe we should just scroll!!
Richard
Thanks for the idea richard.
Thanks for the idea richard. I took a look at the code but i think it will be too difficult to implement. The reason is the client was written to group by server/device alphabetically and to change around that would be too big a job. If i can figure out a way to do it easily ill update this post