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CR 2008 in a webfarm

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Topic: CR 2008 in a webfarm
Posted By: livez
Subject: CR 2008 in a webfarm
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2008 at 12:50am
Hello!
 
We have a webfarm and save sessions out-of-process in a sql server. This causes problems for us with CR, since the reportdocument-object doesn´t seem to be serializable. I´ve read something about a RAS-server, but it doesn´t seem as if that is a part of Crystal Reports 2008, which is what we use. Does anyone know more about this? Is there some way to serialize reports without using a RAS-server?


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Posted By: hilfy
Date Posted: 02 May 2008 at 2:32pm
The RAS server is not a standard part of CR, it is part of "Crystal Server" comes with (I believe) the Developer edition of XI and I'm not sure which version of 2008.  I believe that Crystal Server will serve up reports to web users and get around the session issue.  However, the version that comes with Crystal has only 5 concurrent user licenses and you have to purchase more if you need them.  If you only have the 5, the 6th person who tries to open a report while 5 others are open will get an error message stating that there are no licenses available.  Also, there is, I believe, and 100 user limit in the number of concurrent licenses that can be installed.
 
-Dell


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