bruce_giles asked a question.
Hello Oracle Experts, our licensing team is investigating some Oracle User per Licence challenges and asked me where the Oracle User comes from. From what I have read, the user represents the users of the database instances. Our licensing team has extracted the list of users per license but the application support team is questioning them.
So, my question is this ... what does that "user' do to be identified as a user. Do they simply access the database via the related application or does it mean they actually logged onto the database instance. My knowledge of Oracle is very suspect at best, so I am hoping I can learn something here. I have read through the Reference guide and the Oracle practice guide but did not see anything specific.
Thx as Always
Bruce
Hi Bruce,
the current Oracle license metric is NUP (Named User Plus). You should count every "human or non-human operated device" that have direct or indirect access (via an application, third party or custom form/report) to the database. Therefore the actual users are counted at the multiplexing frondend. No need to license system users in the database. Exampes:
- 4 DBA access the database via a user account admin - license 4 users- 100 employees access the application running on the database - license all 100
Keep in mind that you can only use this metric if you actually know and can count the number of users. In case of an application with web access you should apply Processor metric.
Maria