Ian,

Chances are you student is bumping his/her nose against the user license.
Regardless of the session limit you cannot log on more sessions than the
user license will allow. You can check the user limit by interrogating the
HPUSERLIMIT variable.

HTH.

Doug.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Sargent <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 4:26 PM
Subject: Help on "Unable to create new session..."


> Hi folks,
>
> I have just been delivering an MPE/iX HPVC course and a
> student (with VERY little experience) came up with a question
> that I cannot answer, for two reasons:
>
> 1. I don't have access to his system so I don't know the state
>     or what is running on it etc etc
> 2. I have never come across this before.
>
> Anyway, it would appear that his Job and Session limits are
> set to 50 or 60 and Jobfence set to 0 but with only 25 (approx)
> sessions currently running. He (users) have received "Unable
> to create new sessions.." messages. He does not know, yet,
> how to monitor the system or to find out what is going on as
> he has been given the system after the previous admin left! In
> other words he may have been handed a 'can of worms'?!
>
> I guess the biggest problem at this point is not knowing what
> is actually running on the system but.....
>
> Anyone have any idea's about this or has anyone seen this
> before?