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Agisoft Metashape => General => Topic started by: tarkhil on March 10, 2015, 02:53:24 PM

Title: Licensing for network processing
Post by: tarkhil on March 10, 2015, 02:53:24 PM
Hello

It's unclear from manual if I have to purchase a license for every processing server or just for client node controlling the process?
Title: Re: Licensing for network processing
Post by: Marcel on March 10, 2015, 02:58:58 PM
You need a Pro license for every network node as far as I know.

A separate 'network node license' that only does network processing would make more sense I think.
Title: Re: Licensing for network processing
Post by: Alexey Pasumansky on March 10, 2015, 03:04:52 PM
Hello tarkhil,

Currently each computer involved in network processing (either in server or node mode) requires PhotoScan Pro to be installed and activated with the separate license.
The client GUI can be run from any of the nodes (or server) or can be started from other computer in the network not involved in the network processing.
Title: Re: Licensing for network processing
Post by: tarkhil on March 10, 2015, 04:48:08 PM
Currently each computer involved in network processing (either in server or node mode) requires PhotoScan Pro to be installed and activated with the separate license.

... which render all the idea 100% unusable for me. Okay, I think I'll do a try with trial, just to see if I'll be able to improve performance.
Title: Re: Licensing for network processing
Post by: Alexey Pasumansky on May 31, 2017, 02:18:40 PM
Hello tarkhil,

Currently each computer involved in network processing (either in server or node mode) requires PhotoScan Pro to be installed and activated with the separate license.
The client GUI can be run from any of the nodes (or server) or can be started from other computer in the network not involved in the network processing.
I see that some users are quoting this thread when contacting us via e-mail. So just as an update to actual version of PhotoScan I would like to mention, that PhotoScan instance run in server mode only doesn't require the license  activation  - only processing nodes and client application run in GUI mode (to perform some changes to the project) require activation.

Additional information is available in Chapter 8 of PhotoScan Professional manual:
http://www.agisoft.com/pdf/photoscan-pro_1_3_en.pdf