To DownGrade HP-UX Unlimited User License

[Clarence Lee]

Dear all,

I have a rp7400 system running on os HPUX 11.11 with unlimited-user license.

Question, is there anyway where can i downgrade the value ?

If i do a  swremove for the package "userlicense" which consists of the "UNL-USER",

what will be the default value for number of license.  Will the system able to boot ?

Thank you in advance for the advise.

Regards,

Clarence

[Dennis Handly]

Why do you want to do this?  HP-UX servers have been all sold with unlimited licenses for quite a while.

[Torsten.]

Number of users was important in times of good old terminals. Each terminal needed a user license. The default was 2 users, 1 for console, 1 for entire network, IIRC.

[Clarence Lee]

Aim is to reduce third parties software cost.

Regards,

Clarence

[Matti_Kurkela]

The number of "users" (actually serial port terminal sessions) is no longer a part of HP-UX licence pricing model, so removing the UNL-USER package is not going to make your licenses any cheaper at all.

In fact, at some point of time (maybe HP-UX 11.00 or early 11.11 timeframe, if I recall correctly) HP offered the UNL-USER licences as a free download from software.hp.com. Since then, all new HP-UX installations have been "unlimited users" by default.

As Torsten says, before the unlimited users was the norm, the default was 2 users: one user license was considered enough to cover all network-based logins, and another license was reserved for the system console. You only had to think about user licences if you had extra serial ports added to your system.

[Dennis Handly]

>Aim is to reduce third parties software cost.

Which third party still bases their cost on the obsolete HP-UX license, instead of the number of CPUs/sockets or the honor system?