How is Apache licensed? When is a WebServer agent consumed?

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Question by Kurt A. · Dec 03, 2015 at 10:48 AM · configuration agent server license apache

How is Apache licensed? When is a WebServer agent consumed?

I am wondering what's the actual unit/mechanism which consumes one WebServer agent license (e. g. Apache instances).

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Sun K. · Dec 04, 2015 at 06:07 AM 0

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Let's say we use prefork MPM in httpd, so how many agents do we need?

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Answer by Patrick T. · Dec 04, 2015 at 09:22 AM

Apache consumes one license per parent process.

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Kurt A. &. · Dec 04, 2015 at 10:00 AM 0

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Thanks Patrick! So in case of prefork MPM we still use only one license, because there is one licnese because there is a parent process. Correct?

This Multi-Processing Module (MPM) implements a non-threaded, pre-forking web server. Each server process may answer incoming requests, and a parent process manages the size of the server pool.

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/prefork.html

Xiaoping L. · Dec 06, 2015 at 09:17 PM 0

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Hi Patrick,

Can you have a look at the scenario in this post https://answers.dynatrace.com/questions/139033/how-do-we-count-web-server-agents-in-licensing.html#comment-139037 ?

How is Apache licensed? When is a WebServer agent consumed?

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