Product

Brisque^® 5.0

Platform

All Brisque 5.0 platforms

Operating system

IBM^® AIX^® 5.2

Symptoms

The client site has many Mac stations (for example, 44 stations) but only 6 HELIOS^® licenses.
A question was raised whether if was possible to cause the Mac that mounted the Brisque via HELIOS to timeout after a predefined idle time, thus freeing a HELIOS license.

Solution

The following solution was offered by HELIOS, whereby you modify 2 parameters in the atalk.conf file:

• idletime idletime=time
  where time is the number of minutes that you define for the Mac to be idle before you are logged out by the afpsrv program. Default time is 0 (that is, there is no timeout and the Mac will be idle 0 mins).
• idlewarntime idlewarntime=warntime
  where warntime is the number of minutes after which the afpsrv program displays a warning that you will be logged out by the afpsrv idletime. Default warntime is set to half the idletime, unless you define another value.

Technical contact(s)

Lev Weissman

Submitted by

Lev Weissman

Date submitted

02 May 2005