Bordermanager Licensing Issues
Andrew Mason
I am in the final stages of planning a BorderManager 3.6 Site-to-Site
VPN to replace our current dialup ISDN/Netware Multi Protocol Router
solution that links three sites. The sites have roughly 65 users, 35
users and 15 users respectively. Each will have a dedicated BM server
using the 3-user copy of Netware 5.1 distributed with BorderManager. A
number of questions:-
(1) How many user licenses are required? A Novell pre-sales tech after
checking and re-checking (finally with a product manager) reckoned a
5-user Enterprise Edition license on each site is required for a
site-to-site scenario.
(2) Assuming (1) is correct, can I use single VLA1 media pack and
three 5 User license disks or would the standard shrink wrap version
be better? I am particularly concerned about using the same NW5.1
license on three different servers.
(3) I would like to offer two or three users on each site internet
access (over 90% of the 'users' on the network are simply EPOS tills).
Would my existing license cover this scenario also? If not how many
user licenses will I require to achieve this? I would find it VERY
difficult to justify licensing all 115 users at $40 each to provide
services to less than ten very occasional users.
(4) As a second phase of this project I will load Groupwise6 on one or
all of the BorderManager servers. Must each licensed GroupWise user
also have a Netware license? If so is it possible to add additional
users to the 3-User license distributed with BorderManager. I should
possibly post this to a GroupWise forum, but whilst I am here I
figured I would try my luck.
I would be really grateful for some help on this stuff.
Andrew Mason
CNE CCNA