Licence for fsadm defrag

[Robert Milne]

Dear forum people,

I am trying to run a defrag on my L1000's JFS filesystem. When I run:
fsadm -F vxfs -DEde /stuff

I get:
fsadm: You don't have a license to run this program

I do have licences for HP-UX 11i, MirrorDisk/UX, OnLine JFS 3.3 for HP9000 servers.
We use LVM but not Veritas.

I have np problem running the reporting only option with fsadm -F vxfs -DE

What licence do I need ? How do I know if the licences have been installed and are being recognised correctly ?

Regards,

Rob.

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Well its the online JFS option that you require, but if you say you have it installed... can you post the output on swlist?

this is what I have for Online JFS

B3929CA B.11.11 HP OnLineJFS

HTH

Duncan

[Robert Milne]

Hello Duncan,

Thanks for the prompt response !
I ran swlist and I couldn't see it in there.

I would have the piece of paper for it though.
I would I install it ?
Is this related to the Veritas manager softare which was recently removed by an engineer as we don't use it and was causing error messages when creating our Ignite recovery tape.

Thanks.

Rob.

[Trond Haugen]

I belive you'll need to run 'vxenablef -a'.
It should be in inittab:
vxen::bootwait:/sbin/fs/vxfs/vxenablef -a

Regards,
Trond

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Sounds like the engineer removed veritas volume manager - that should affect JFS - depending on the operating environment you have for 11i you might not see online JFS in a plain 'swlist' - try 'swlist -l fileset | grep -i jfs' - what does that return...

HTH

Duncan

[Duncan Edmonstone]

oops I *meant* to say that VxVM shouldn't affect JFS!

Duncan

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

You'll need to install Online JFS again, followed by any related patches. The codeword will be on your certificate. The Online JFS product will be on CD #1 of your Application CDROM set. You can verify this by looking at the CD_TABLE_OF_CONTENTS file on the Application CDs (all have the same file which is a comprehensive list of all software on all CDs).

[Sandip Ghosh]

You need Advanced Vxfs for this. Look into the /stand/system file that vxadv driver is there or not. If you are having Advanced Vxfs you should have this driver in the Kernel to do this defrag.

sandip

[Robert Milne]

Hello Duncan,

I ran the swlist as you suggested and got the following:

swlist -l fileset | grep -i jfs
# JFS B.11.11 The Base VxFS File System

JFS.JFS-ENG-A-MAN B.11.11 JFS-ENG-A-MAN
JFS.JFS-JPN-E-MAN B.11.11 JFS-JPN-E-MAN
JFS.JFS-JPN-S-MAN B.11.11 JFS-JPN-S-MAN
JFS.VXFS-BASE-KRN B.11.11 The Base VxFS File System
Kernel files
JFS.VXFS-BASE-RUN B.11.11 VXFS-BASE-RUN
JFS.VXFS-PRG B.11.11 Subproduct contains the n
ecessary header files for prog env
PHCO_24813.VXFS-BASE-RUN 1.0 JFS.VXFS-BASE-RUN
PHKL_23240.VXFS-BASE-KRN 1.0 JFS.VXFS-BASE-KRN
PHKL_23242.VXFS-BASE-KRN 1.0 JFS.VXFS-BASE-KRN
PHKL_23374.VXFS-BASE-KRN 1.0 JFS.VXFS-BASE-KRN
# PHKL_24026 1.0 JFS Filesystem swap corru
ption
PHKL_24026.VXFS-BASE-KRN 1.0 JFS.VXFS-BASE-KRN
# PHKL_24073 1.0 Fix For Deadlock Between
VM and JFS
PHKL_24783.VXFS-BASE-KRN 1.0 JFS.VXFS-BASE-KRN

Should I now have to re-install anything as the previous respondents have suggested ??

Thanks.

Rob.

[Michael Tully]

Hi Rob,

I've read this post and agree with the summation by the other guys. I see no choice but to re-install the product.

Good Luck
~Michael~

[Darrell Allen]

Hi Rob,

You do not have OnlineJFS (also called Advanced VxFS) installed. If you have the license document, you should have the codeword that "unlocks" the application CD so that you can install it. If you don't have the codeword but do have the license or certificate, you can request or retrieve your codeword online at:
http://licensing.hp.com/site=ITRC?LANGUAGE_OPTION=english

As Bill Hassell pointed out, don't forget to retrieve current patches for OnlineJFS.

Darrell

[Hartmut Lang]

You can make a online check of your installed license with "vxlicense -p".

Hardy

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Rob,

I think you have your answer... reinstall!

Also ask the engineer why this product was removed (assuming it was ever on?)

HTH

Duncan

[Robert Milne]

Hi Duncan,

It was removed due to error/warning messages that occurred when creating the HP-UX ignite recovery tape. At the time, I guess we "ass u me d" we weren't using any Veritas related stuff, only LVM, so off it wen't...

I guess I'll have to re-install. I haven't done this before but I'll give it a go.

Thanks for all your help.

Rob.

[Robert Milne]

Hello Hartmut,

I did as you suggested:
>vxlicense -p
and got the result:
vrts:vxlicense: ERROR: No licenses installed

Rob.

[John Carr_2]

Hi Robert

Im glad you got lots of responses and a way to resolve your problem.

I would really like to know what the original error message was which an engineer thought required s/w to be removed for.

John.

[David Meidam]

Robert,
My understanding is that the base JFS 3.3 software as well as the Advanced JFS product that Duncan mentioned. But when you install B3929CA B.11.11 HP OnLineJFS with the HP codeword you also need a license key from Veritas. I didn't see this distinction being made in this thread so I thought I should mention it. HP licensing will acquire this for you. I've attached a list of instructions as well as the link to the doc. But I can't seem to find the form. HP licensing would be abel to help you there.
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B3929-90007/00/00/9-con.html