Licensing question

[John Lutheran]

I have a small air-gapped network with 200 active users. There are never more than 50 users on the network at a time. Most users are very occasional. Is the Confluence Datacenter licensing based on concurrent (logged in) users, or potential (LDAP) users?

I other words, do I pay for the ~50 users that are logged in at once, or do I pay for the 200 users that are registered?

[Cyrille Martin · Accepted solution]

Hi @John Lutheran 

As mentioned by @Kris Dewachter  and @Marc - Devoteam with Confluence you are buying named user accounts (yes potentially all users from the LDAP if you chose to import all users at once and not at the first connection) and not a number of simultaneous connections.

Nonetheless, on Datacenter you can use the plugin License Optimizer for Confluence to revoke access on non active users and automatically gives rights to a new one trying to reach your instance.

Never tested, but sounds promising for your use case.

Regards,

[Marc - Devoteam]

Hi @Cyrille Martin 

Nice spot.

I never used this one as well.

Also related to not managing so many DC instances!!!

[Marc - Devoteam · Accepted solution]

Hi @John Lutheran 

Welcome to the community.

All Atlassian products are based on the potential model, no product utilizes the concurrent model

[Kris Dewachter · Accepted solution]

Hi @John Lutheran ,

Welcome to the Atlassian Community.

Atlassian licensing is based on "potential" users. So if all 200 users need to be able to access Confluence, and have an active account, you will need to pay for a license. So in your case, 200 licenses.

Best regards,

Kris