QlikView session license limits in a global/multi server environment?

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hi all, I’m after some advice.

We have recently moved to a session based model on our QlikView servers and are experiencing some issues with licence management that I’d be interested in your thoughts on. So say I have 5 production QV environments (independent… not clustered) and I have 100 session based user licenses.

All the servers are in different time zones or providing a dashboard where concurrent users stay pretty low between environments.

What I’d of course like to do is have 100 session licences available on all 5 servers (QlikView providing the licenses to do this) BUT I need to limit the overall concurrent active usage to 100 at any one time across all 5 production environments. If I don’t I go to jail and QV collect £200.

I have a licence monitoring dashboard so can see usage once it has happened – but ideally I need a way to stop the overall consumption without simply putting only 20 sessions on each of the environments (as this rather kills the point of concurrent licensing!) So far thoughts include;

• Monitor usage across the environments and if a threshold close to the max is hit drop swap in restricted LEF files.

• Allocate a pot of document CALS across all the machines and enable auto allocation (somehow!) when a threshold is close.

What you guys think?

Any idea’s?

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