Mailing Lists: Apple Mailing Lists
Image of Mac OS face in stamp
 
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Server RAM requirements

email@hidden writes:
>What is meant by concurrent users or simultaneous clients? When I first
>read this, I thought that meant individuals who were logged in at one
>time.
>However, now I am wondering if it refers to machines that are turned on at
>one time or who are connecting to the MM welcome screen. We often have 70
>-
>90 users logged in, and 150 or more machines turned on.

Computers connected to the server. If you look at the Control Strip on the
server, you will see how many concurrent users are currently connected to
your server.

To keep this number down to realistic values, we have set the
'Disconnect from the server if no user logs in within ___ Minutes' to 5
minutes.

This is found in the 'Computer' Tab, and 'Control' sub Tab in MM Admin.

If you have multiple Computer lists set up, you will need to set this up
for all of them (of course that is up to you).

What will happen after 5 minutes of inactivity at the login screen, is a
Green 'X' will appear in the left side of the menubar. This indicates that
the machine is disconnected from the Server.

This has many advantages:
1) You can leave machines on all the time. At night, when backing up with
Retrospect, you can back up the .idx files because the machines are not
connected to the server.

2) If the Authentication server goes down, those inactive machines do NOT
receive a message that the server went down (who cares, nobody is around
to see the message anyway).

3) You don't get high concurrent user numbers on the server when in
reality you don't anyway.

References: 
 >Server RAM requirements (From: Lori Lineweaver <email@hidden>)



Visit the Apple Store online or at retail locations.
1-800-MY-APPLE

Contact Apple | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2007 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.