1.20 unlimited user license

[Cindy Wolford]

Does anyone know where I can find the download for 10.20 unlimited user license?

I just did a swlist of our current 10.20 K420 server and did not see the unlimited user license software installed on our server. I'd definitely want to add this if I still can?

Does anyone know where/how I can get it?
TIA

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Cindy:

Since 10.20 is no longer supported, I'm not sure taht you are going to find the product.

However, unless you have an issue with serial-connections exceeding your license limit, I wouldn't worry. Even with a 2-user license, you can have as many network connections as you want.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Cindy Wolford]

Hmm, was afraid of that.

We have a 32-user license. Seems that after 69 users on the system, no one else can log in. They don't get an error, just automatically disconnected when trying to connect.

I've maxed my kernel settings/disk space. When I try to increase npty/nsptry and stuff, I get an error that there is not enough space and I have no choice but to undo my changes.....

So, it looks like our box has finally reached it's max. Was wishful thinking....

anyone have any ideas?

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

agree with James on the part that this will probably not solve your problem, but the license can be downloaded.

Unlimited User License for HP-UX 10.20 and 11.0

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&swItem=wk145en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

You wrote:

"We have a 32-user license. Seems that after 69 users on the system, no one else can log in. They don't get an error, just automatically disconnected when trying to connect."

This is not a user license problem unless you have more than 30 modems or serial (RS-232) ports on your system.

"I've maxed my kernel settings/disk space. When I try to increase npty/nsptry and stuff, I get an error that there is not enough space and I have no choice but to undo my changes....."

You can (and should) increase npty/nstrpty but this will not cause any space issue. There is something much more fundamentally worng with your system. Do you have error messages in syslog.log?

There is no reason to change any kernel parameters except npty and nstrpty. The current value of npty/nstrpty will limit the number of network connections. These are not user licenses. User licenses only apply to modem and serial port logins. You can have thousands of network users as long as there are enough pty device files and the limits for npty/nstrpty must match the available device files.

Now the words "not enough space" in HP-UX don't refer to disk at all but usually is associated with errno 12 or ENOMEM, which in English means "out of RAM". This is not related to your pty problem, but is because SAM (and it's child processes) need some additional memory and you've run out of swap space. Note that you can use a lot more than 100% of your RAM -- that's what swap space is for.

So the first thing to do is to find all the running processes that consume a lot of memory:

UNIX95=1 ps -o vsz,pid,ppid,args | sort -rn | head -20

The above is all one command -- the UNIX95=1 is a temporary variable to enable the -o options in ps. The largest processes wilol be sirted to the top of the list. vsz is the memory used in Kbytes. If any of these can be terminated gracefully, go ahead and do so. If you're running a database, shutdown the database for a few minutes. That should clear up the space error. Also check that your max_dbc_pct value is NOT 50 -- it should be approximately 400-800 megs but since it is a percentage of RAM, calculate the % needed to represent about 400-800 megs of your RAM.

Now you should be able to increase npty/nstrpty value to allow more users. If 70 is the limit, change it to 200 and you won't have to worry about it anymore.

[Bill Hassell]

Oops, left out a -e in the ps command:

UNIX95=1 ps -e -o vsz,pid,ppid,args | sort -rn | head -20

Obviously I have a defective keyboard...

[Cindy Wolford]

Thanks everyone for the reply...especially Bill. I'll take your advise and run with it.

As always, I appreciate all of the quick responses and ideas.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!