Hi
I got an amazing amount of responses to this one.
There seemed to be many ways of doing what I wanted to do. In the end
I decided to take copies of the ldb and ldb_history files and restore
them when I have reinstalled the system as this will also save me
having to reload all our other licenses.
Thanks to:
John P Speno
Sean O'Connell
Marco Luchini
Knut Hellbo
Terry Horsnell
Alan Davies
Bryan Lavelle
Steve Butcher
Hardial Lakhpur
Ronny Eliahu
Serguei Patchkovski
Tom Blinn
Wendy Fong
Irene Shilikhina
John P Speno wrote:
>
> You could copy your /var/lmf/ldb and /var/lmf/ldb_history files from
> the existing server to the server after the install.
>
> That should work...
Sean O'Connell wrote:
>
> If you don't mind having the license go away for a few seconds
> you can do the following:
>
> lmf issue lsm.tmp PRODUCTNAMEFORLSM
> lmf register < lsm.tmp
> lmf reset
>
> you will be back in business and can use the lsm.tmp file as
> the basis for you reconstruction.
Luchini,Marco wrote:
>
> # lmf list | grep LSM
> LSM-OA active unlimited
> # lmf issue lsm-license LSM-OA (write to file lsm-license)
> # lmf register - < lsm-license (reregister the license on the live box)
> # lmf reset (make sure lmf has figured
> out what we've done)
Knut Hellebų wrote:
>
> Regards,
>
> Find a old backup and recover the /var/adm/lmf/ldb_* files. You can use
> these to get to the old licenses. Then use lmf (character based) and do
> a 'issue'. This works, I know because I did it recently (maybe the GUI
> version is broken)
T. S. Horsnell wrote:
>
> You should be able to copy over the complete lmf database /var/adm/lmf/...
> assuming you have it on an old disk/backup somewhere.
> Cheers,
> Terry.
Davis,Alan wrote:
>
> Gwen,
>
> If the system is up and running and LMF shows the license
> as active, you can just save a copy of the /var/adm/lmf/ldb
> file and put it back after the fresh install.
>
> You may also want to look at the manpages for genufi and
> it's related tools. These tools can make reconfiguring
> after a fresh install much easier.
Lavelle,Bryan wrote:
> Gwen,
>
> There is an issue option to lmf which will give the original data to the
> user. It is documented in the lmf man page. The gotcha to this is that,
> once issued, the pak is no longer any good on the system, you would have to
> re-enter it to make it valid again. The easy way to do this would be to
> copy your ldb to another file, do your issues on the licenses you need, then
> copy the original ldb back to the active ldb (just mv commands) and do an
> lmf reset and you will be back where you started.
>
> Of course, you should be able to redirect the output to a file for
> retention. And you should only reapply the paks to the system they came
> from.
>
> Bryan
Butcher,Steve wrote:
>
> Gwen,
>
> You could take a copy ( tar ? ) of the /var/adm/lmf tree , which holds the
> license database. It is then possible to bring the real licenses back.
>
> Regards
>
> Steve Butcher
Eliahu,Ronny wrote:
>
> Type lmf and at the lmf prompt and enter help
> lmf> help
> ...and you will be able to:
> register, delete, amend. modify, enable, disable, cancel, issue. list,
> history, load, unload, reset, and more.. you can also use lmfsetup
>
> hope this helps
> ron
Serguei Patchkovskii wrote:
>
> Well, if '/usr/sbin/lmf list full ldb for LSM-OA' does not show the
> licence, you are in trouble - lmf is authoritative. If it does,
> doing '/usr/sbin/lmf issue licence-file LSM-OA' should do what you
> want.
>
Dr Tom Blinn wrote:
>
> Have you tried the "lmf list full for <license-name>" command line
> interface? Should work.. There are other command line options that
> you can use with the lmf utility.
>
> You can also just save a copy of the license data base files (ldb*)
> from your /var/adm/lmf directory, and restore them after you do the
> fresh install.
>
> Tom
Wendy Fong wrote:
>
> When we do upgrades at customer sites, we save the /usr/var/adm/lmf/ldb
> file off to tape. After the OS install, we copy the file back to the
> directory and do an lmf reset. This puts everything back the way it was.
>
> wendy
Irene A. Shilikhina wrote:
>
> Gwen,
>
> sorry if I'm late but I still cannot see your summary.
>
> In general, you can check all your licenses together with their status
> with the command
>
> # lmf list full
>
> which issues full information for every installed license together with
> their status, for example,
> License status: active
>
> If the license in question hasn't been installed, I'm afraid, you cannot
> get the information about it if you hasn't saved the paper original either.
>
> Kind regards and good luck,
> Irene
My original message
I am about to do a fresh install on our 8400. But I have a small
problem with the licensing of LSM. My predecessor seems not to have
kept the PAK information for the LSM license.
I talked to Compaq support and they suggested I got a temporary
license PAK and install it, then I could issue our original LSM
license to a file. Then I could reinstall it and then remove the
temporary license.
Well I tried this using dxlicense and was unsuccesful as the orignal
license didnt seem to get issued. Can anyone suggest away of getting
the original information out of the system, preferably without having
to shut the system down.
--
Gwen Pettigrew
Computer Officer
Institute of Theoretical Geophysics
Department of Earth Sciences
Downing Street
Cambridge
CB2 3EQ
UK
Tel 01223 333464
E-mail gwen_at_itg.cam.ac.uk
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Received on Tue Sep 14 1999 - 09:53:22 NZST