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OpenVMS Hobbyist License

Sumant M Kumar — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:42:10 GMT

Hi,

Can anyone help me to get hobbyist license for OpenVMS 8.31H1.I need to install VMS on Integrity hardware.

Base License
UCX,Shadow

Regards,
Sumant

Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist License

John Gillings — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:18:38 GMT

Sumant,
Is this system for your personal use? That's the condition for a hobbyist license.

If the system belongs to any kind of commercial entity, or is used for business use, please contact HP to negotiate the purchase of the necessary licenses.

If it's your personal system for non-commercial use, go to http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/licenses.php

Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist License

Sumant M Kumar — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:29:52 GMT

Hi John,

I have completed my registration on link which you provided me.But i cant see any license PAK's.Could you please guide me where i can get it.

Do we need to regiser these licenses.

FYI !!! System is used for non-commercial purpose.

Regards,
Sumant

Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist License

Sumant M Kumar — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:43:31 GMT

Hi John,

Who will provide me the Valid Membership number.I have already registered on that link but when i serching any license PAK's its asking me to enter membership number.After registration i got a email for the verification purpose i clicked on that link and activated my user account but till now i do not recieve any membership number just i got my user id and password.

Regards,
Sumant

Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist License

Volker Halle — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:46:23 GMT

Sumant,

DECUServe is now an official Hobbyist Chapter, so you need to register an account with DECUServe first to get your membership number. For details see:

http://decuserve.org/

There is a current story about this on OpenVMS.org.

Volker.

Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist License

Sumant M Kumar — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:34:46 GMT

Hi VOlker,

I tried to connect with Decuser.org but unable to connect.

C:\>telnet decuserve.org
Connecting To decuserve.org...Could not open connection to the host, on port 23:
Connect failed

Also i tried with Java Telnet
http://encompasserve.org/telnet/index_TEST.html

Trying to eisner.decus.org
Failed to connect

Regards,
Sumant

Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist License

Volker Halle — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:37:55 GMT

Sumant,

I can telnet to eisner.decuserve.org

Volker.

Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist License

Sumant M Kumar — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:46:04 GMT

Hi Volker,

I am located in Singapore and systems are in US.Is this the reason i not able to telnet the node.Still i am getting the same error.

Please assist me if there is any other way to get into that node to complete registration.

Regards,
Sumant

Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist License

Volker Halle — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:49:08 GMT

Sumant,

$ ucx ping eisner.decuserve.org
PING eisner.decuserve.org (67.53.90.116): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 67.53.90.116: icmp_seq=0 ttl=236 time=136 ms
...

Does PING work from where you are ?

Volker.

Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist License

Sumant M Kumar — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:53:44 GMT

Hi Volker,

I am able to do ssh and i got password prompt but what is the password here?

o Report problems in DECUServe_Forum.

o Please $Support$ DECUServe. See DECUServe_Forum Topic 776 for how to
contribute. Progress on 2005 campaign as of 1-Dec (week 37): 27 members
contributing $2543. (In 2004, 36 members contributed $4953 in 16 weeks.)

For information about Encompasserve please login under -> Username INFORMATION
To subscribe to Encompasserve please login under -> Username REGISTRATION
To report any form of a problem please login under -> Username PROBLEMS
To renew an Expired account please login under -> Username REGISTRATION

REGISTRATION@67.53.90.116's password:
Access denied
REGISTRATION@67.53.90.116's password:
Access denied
REGISTRATION@67.53.90.116's password:

Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist License

Volker Halle — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:01:29 GMT

Sumant,

there is no password for the REGISTRATION account.

So it looks like TELNET is blocked from your site and SSH with an account without a password does not seem to work on EISNER.

Volker.

Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist License

Volker Halle — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:10:52 GMT

Sumnat,

this is a 'known problem' (registration via SSH is currently not possible) - see DECUSERVE_Forum note 831.*

You need to find a way to login via TELNET for REGISTRATION (maybe from home) ?

Volker.

Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist License

Sumant M Kumar — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:14:25 GMT

Yes Volker ....you are right.

Better i can try from home.Thanks a lot for your all help.

Regards,
Sumant

Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist License

Volker Halle — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:17:15 GMT

Sumant,

I have added a pointer to this thread as feedback in the DECServe_Forum notes file entry 831.16.

Volker.

Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist License

Volker Halle — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:18:51 GMT

Typo: should be: DECUServe_Forum entry 831.16

Volker.

Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist License

Sumant M Kumar — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:55:34 GMT

Hi Volker,

I have completed my registration on DecuServ.org successfully.Now i am able to login into vms node but my question is from where i can get the hobbyist license for non-commercial purpose.I am able to login with Telnet as well as SSH ports.

My user id is do not have enough permissions.

Regards,
Sumant

Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist License

Graham Burley — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:17:13 GMT

See http://decuserve.org/hobbyist.html

Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist License

Keith Parris — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:20:18 GMT

To summarize the helpful link given above, log into DECUServe and enter the command HOBBYIST at the dollar-sign prompt. That will print the membership number you need to get the Hobbyist license. If you try your membership number and it does not work, it may be because it can take a few days for DECUServe's new-account information to be transferred over to the Hobbyist website, so a bit of patience is required in that case.

Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist License

Sumant M Kumar — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:36:43 GMT

Yes you are Keith.I issued the command hobbyist and i got all the imp info but when used the same member number on hobbyist site i got error "member id not found in the database" so i think it will take some time.

Regards,
Sumant

Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist License

Sumant M Kumar — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:34:21 GMT

Dear Support Members,

Can anyone tell me how many days registration process will take because still i am getting error message.

"Your Membership Number is not in our database or is incorrect. Please check with your Chapter to insure it is correct and they have updated us. Sorry for any inconvenience"

But when i type hobbyist on command prompt i can see my member number.Let me know which option i need to choose to get hobbyist license on openvms.org link.

Regards,
Sumant