How many instances is possible execute with one license in a LAN?
Hello to all
I have the intention to buy a license of "IntelliJ Idea" to use Java, Spring and others. To be honest, I have 3 laptops on LAN managed by me, currently I use STS in these machines in peace. The point is, for each laptop I can run an instance with a different custom project. Lets say Project Alpha and Project Beta.
Now, my concern is: If I buy a license for the version mentioned, is possible have opened in the same time or in parallel an instance for each machine the IDE in peace? If yes, how many instances would be granted?
Or if in PC A is running an instance of the IDE to work with the Project Alpha and if I need in PC B work with the Project Beta so: Is mandatory close first the instance in PC A? and apply this logic if I need to work in the inverse order?
If it is not the correct place to do this question - pls let me know
Thanks for your understanding
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Hello,
I can buy license for the version but no result found can you find some way to solve.
please someone help us.
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Hi, you could check the faq here about this:
https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207241005
> You can run multiple personal licensed copies at the same time (like on laptop and desktop for remote debugging client/server apps) as long as you are the only user of your personal license.
The same is true for the commercial subscriptions with the additional requirement: your operating system username (login) must be the same on all the systems where you use the IDE.
@Dr Pompeii about your question:
> Now, my concern is: If I buy a license for the version mentioned, is possible have opened in the same time or in parallel an instance for each machine the IDE in peace? If yes, how many instances would be granted?
If you have a personal license: you can use it on multiple computers parallelly as long as you are the only user of your personal license. (Others are not allow to use your license)
If your company bought a commercial license for you, you can use it on multiple computers parallelly if all your operating system usernames (login) running the IDE are the same. Otherwise, it will show a message to shut down other instances, or this instance.
We don't have any number limitation here if you follow the above policy.
Hello Lejia
Thanks for the polite feedback, it seems that would be an issue if is used in different OS, Am I correct? For example Linux and Windows or macOS or Linux....
For the moment, it could be used on 2 Ubuntu instances - or Ubuntu and Fedora.
Thanks for your understanding.
> Thanks for the polite feedback, it seems that would be an issue if is used in different OS, Am I correct? For example Linux and Windows or macOS or Linux....
No, you could use it in different OSes at the same time.
Thanks for the quick reply ...
The unique issue is the user's name, in Linux is used /home/manueljordan and macOS /Users/manueljordan - as you can see different paths but the user's name is the same: "manueljordan" - but in Windows 10 is "C:\Users\mjord", as you can see the user's name is "mjordan"
01) Is safe use the IDE for Linux and macOS at parallel, right?
02) Is not safe use the IDE on Windows 10 at parallel, right?
So for this (2):
(a) The user's name should be changed from "mjordan" to "manueljordan"
(b) if (a) is not possible in Windows: Should be executed the IDE being sure that there are no more instances running at the same time in the LAN? - Am I correct?
Thanks for your support in advance
@Dr Pompeii Do you buy the license for yourself? In this case, you could buy a personal license that doesn't have the username limitation.
See the difference between commercial and personal licenses here: https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207241075-What-is-the-difference-between-commercial-and-personal-licenses-
If your organization or company pays the money to buy the license for you, it needs to buy the commercial one, then if your Windows username is different:
> 01) Is safe use the IDE for Linux and macOS at parallel, right?
Yes.
> 02) Is not safe use the IDE on Windows 10 at parallel, right?
Yes.
> (a) The user's name should be changed from "mjordan" to "manueljordan"
Yes, after you change the username, you could use it parallelly.
> if (a) is not possible in Windows: Should be executed the IDE being sure that there are no more instances running at the same time in the LAN? - Am I correct?
If you start multi IDE in these OSes with different names by accident, it is totally fine and doesn't break our policy.
For example, if you start IDE in Windows and Linux, the IDE will show a dialog to tell you there are multi instances running and let you close this one or other IDE instances.
Hello Lejia
>>Do you buy the license for yourself?
No yet, It is on my schedule, but I am doing this research before to buy it. I want avoid any kind of problems.
The goal is have the IDE running as many instances at parallel in multiple laptops - 2 or 3 - in the same LAN working with Spring for Microservices, therefore each IDE is going to have imported a specific and different project against the others
>If you start multi IDE in these OSes with different names by accident, it is totally fine and doesn't break our policy.
Good to know that ...
>For example, if you start IDE in Windows and Linux, the IDE will show a dialog to tell you there are multi instances running and let you close this one or other IDE instances
Does it apply for the "personal licenses" case too?
Thank You.
> Does it apply for the "personal licenses" case too?
The IDE using a personal license won't have this dialog because the personal license allows you to use it in these OSes with different names at the same time as long as you are the only user of your personal license. (because this is a personal license for yourself and you can't share this personal license with others and this is not allowed)
Hello Lejia
Ok, understood
Thank you for the polite and valuable feedback.