[Casper] Licensed Software Definitions

[Leacy, Miles]

I don¹t have a workaround, but I second the feature request.  Some
flexibility in defining a license would be welcome.

Thanks,
-- 
Miles Leacy
Senior Mac Technologist
ACTC|ACSA|ACT|CCA
Polo Ralph Lauren
212-318-7603
miles.leacy at poloralphlauren.com




On 5/28/08 9:12 AM, "Daniel Farnworth"
<daniel.farnworth at thecreativepartnership.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just wondered before I issue a bug report whether anyone had figured
> a workaround to the following issue?
> 
> We, like many shops, have both Mac and Windows boxes with cross-
> platform licenses for the various pieces of software we run. I like
> to use Casper to track my licensing across both platforms, but have
> hit a snag. As would be expected, the applications have different
> names on each platform but this seems to flummox the JSS. For
> instance, to track CS3 Design Standard we enter the following as
> software definitions: -
> 
> Adobe Photoshop CS3.app
> Adobe InDesign CS3.app
> 
> This happily picks up all the Mac instances, but none of the Windows
> (I wouldn't expect it to of course). If we change this definition to: -
> 
> Adobe Photoshop CS3
> Adobe InDesign CS3
> 
> then JSS only reports Windows installs as contributing to the license
> count. Finally, as I would (kind of) expect, if we make the software
> definition include all 4, JSS doesn't pick anything up.
> 
> It seems to me that we need the software definitions to match on LIKE
> for title or we need to be able to add conditions or even better sets
> of definitions for each platform.
> 
> Has anyone got a workaround?
> 
> Cheers
> Dan
> --
> Daniel Farnworth
> IT Manager
> The Creative Partnership
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