Drivepool Client Only?

[britcowboy]

Hi,

 

I'm setting up a new NAS which I think will use Drivepool. I want to install Drivepool on my client machine for the sole purpose of connecting to this NAS and controlling the pool - do I need another license to do this, because it'll be acting as a client only, I have no intention of creating a drivepool on my client machine.

 

Thanks

[CyberSkulls]

If your just installing on the client for the purpose of using the GUI to manage the actual Drivepool on your NAS, then no you don't need another license. This is a feature built into Drivepool for this exact use case.

 

 

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[Christopher (Drashna)]

CyberSkulls is correct.

 

A license is only needed if you want to run a pool on the system.  Otherwise, the remote control aspect works REGARDLESS of the licensing status of the client system. 

 

This blog post goes over the feature in depth:

http://blog.covecube.com/2013/02/stablebit-drivepool-2-0-beta-remote-control/

 

But here is the important bit:

 

 

 

Licensing is pretty straightforward with remote control.

In order to create a pool on a computer, you will need to activate a license on the computer that the pool is being created on.

But if you just want to use a copy of StableBit DrivePool exclusively for remote controlling other machines on your LAN, then that copy doesn’t require activation.