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- From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: VMS License PAK Problems
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.045832.4474@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 09:58:32 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.192134.22111@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Organization: St. Peter's College, US
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1992Nov17.192134.22111@nwnexus.WA.COM>, craig@halcyon.com (Craig Suhadolnik) writes:
- > We recently did a board level upgrade of a MVII to a MV3900. The
- > new license PAK information was entered into the LMF, and we canceled
- > the old PAK's. We did a "license unload vax-vms" and then a "load
- > license vax-vms".
- >
- > The system still utilizes the old PAK information and will only
- > allow 16 logins as designated by the initial PAK.
- >
- > Any suggestions as to what we are doing wrong? Could it be the start
- > up file?
-
- There are a number of things that could be messing you up. First is that
- VMS operating system PAKs want to live in SYS$SPECIFIC:[SYSEXE]LMF$SYSTEM.LDB
- while the rest of them go in SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]LMF$LICENSE.LDB. The DCL
- VMSLICENSE.COM procedure doesn't know this, however.
-
- Second, the LOAD/UNLOAD options install/remove license information in the
- current running system's license list. The matching options for the license
- database are ENABLE/DISABLE.
-
- So, starting from scratch, you'd:
-
- $ LICENSE UNLOAD VAX-VMS
- $ LICENSE DISABLE VAX-VMS/DATABASE=SYS$SPECIFIC:[SYSEXE]LMF$SYSTEM.LDB
-
- [optional for LMF V1.1 and later only]
- $ LICENSE DELETE VAX-VMS/DATABASE=SYS$SPECIFIC:[SYSEXE]LMF$SYSTEM.LDB
-
- $ LICENSE REGISTER VAX-VMS/DATABASE=SYS$SPECIFIC:[SYSEXE]LMF$SYSTEM.LDB -
- /all-the-other-stuff-on-the-pak
- $ LICENSE LOAD VAX-VMS/DATABASE=SYS$SPECIFIC:[SYSEXE]LMF$SYSTEM.LDB
-
- Once you've got all that done, you should never need to worry about it
- again (at least until your next hardware upgrade).
-
- Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
- terry@spcvxa.bitnet St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
- terry@spcvxa.spc.edu +1 201 915 9381
-