how to restore ldb from cache to ldb file?

[aven_guo]

i delete ldb file,no backup and just no load into cache,now the license in cache is available, somebody can tell me how to restore from cache to ldb?

[Ralf Puchner]

man lmf?
a guess: lmf issue?

[Abdul Rahiman]

Yes .. it looks like (lmf issue & lmf register) is the way to go to recover the license from the kernel cache.

Try doing lmf issue to a file for each PAK and register back from the file. Syntax would be something like this,
# lmf issue advfs.lmf ADVFS-UTILITIES
# lmf register advfs.lmf
# lmf reset
PS: Try one by one, and make sure that your ldb gets updated when you register it.

HTH,
Abdul.

[Ozan Baltaci]

Hi,
I made the same think in order to learn how to recover from the same situation of course with my backup:)
But lmf issue didn't work :

#lmf reset
Warning Creating new license database
#
#
#lmf issue advfs.lmf ADVFS-UTILITIES
No entry in license database for this product

So I returned from my backup.
fyi

[Ralf Puchner]

a lmf reset will clear the internal cache, so a "issue" command will not work! If reading the man-page the command ISSUE will extract a license from current cache, if cache is clear no extraction is possible!

Please read the man page of lmf for further informations....

[Ozan Baltaci]

Hi,
You can be sure that before asking to this forum I search in manual pages!!
Even tough i do not clear the database i can not extract the licenses from the cache:

root@mom:/var/adm/lmf>rm ldb

root@mom:/var/adm/lmf>

root@mom:/var/adm/lmf>lmf list

Error opening license database /var/adm/lmf/ldb

lmf: No such file or directory


root@mom:/var/adm/lmf>

root@mom:/var/adm/lmf>lmf list cache



Product Name: ADVFS-UTILITIES

Producer: DEC



Product Name: OSF-SVR

Producer: DEC



Product Name: OSF-DEV

Producer: DEC



Product Name: OSF-BASE

Producer: DEC



Product Name: OSF-USR

Producer: DEC



Product Name: CXXOSF

Producer: DEC



Product Name: FUSE-C-USER

Producer: DEC



Product Name: FUSE-USER

Producer: DEC



Product Name: SYSV

Producer: DEC



Product Name: LSM-OA

Producer: DEC

root@mom:/var/adm/lmf>
root@mom:/var/adm/lmf>lmf issue advfs.lmf ADVFS-UTILITIES

Error reading license database /var/adm/lmf/ldb

It tries to take the license from the database not the cache...and i couldn't find the way to take the licenses from the cache in the manual pages...

[Ralf Puchner]

if a "lmf list full for product" output will not work use the backup or the original license card delivered with the cd-rom.

[Ozan Baltaci]

OK,
This is the point. Steven's question is "is it possible to get ldb fila from the cache?"
So from your last answer I understand that mf issue is not solving the problem..
You must have a backup or the license card..