licensing details in HP-UX

[Sidharth Gurswamy]

Hi all,

I have a requirement to gather the licensing details of all software and firmware bundles installed in my HP-UX server.

This is required since we are taking over management of the servers and are consolidating information about the servers.

How can I find out the expiry periods on the existing licenses for the various products?

A problem came up when I ran the vxlicrep utility to find out about the Veritas Product Details I got the following output : -

VERITAS License Manager vxlicrep utility version 3.00.007
Copyright (C) VERITAS Software Corp 2002. All Rights reserved.

Creating a report on all VERITAS products installed on this system

-----------------***********************-----------------

License Key = 907749864228766544621479
Product Name = VERITAS File System
Key = Valid
License Type = DEMO
Demo End Date = Sun Jun 24 18:00:00 2007
Site License = YES

Features :=
HP_OnlineJFS = Enabled

Any pointers what this could imply? My thoughts wander off that this might be a problem with other bundles as well.

Waiting anxiously pundits

Cheers,
Sid

[Senthil Kumar .A_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi Sidharth,

As far as the expiry date of online JFS or VXVM product ,that u retreived form "vxlicrep" command goes.. Do not panic.. refer to the following link..

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1002463

but for other licenced product in HPUX box is concerned..

see the file..

/var/adm/sw/.codewords

in this file note down.. "Customer_Id" field...

then go to http://licensing.hp.com/welcome.slm

Here key in the customer id in the given box and submit, It will tell you what are the products in your system that are licensed.

Regards,
Senthil Kumar .A

[Sidharth Gurswamy]

Thanks a lot for that senthil... my heartbeat has slowed up now...

While following up on your suggestion i found out that there was no .codeword file in the /var/adm folder.

Any implications of the same? any alternate location for that file?

Cheers,
sid

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Sid,

It varies product to product. Most of HP's product stores licensing information in /var/adm/sw/.codewords. Other vendors will use their own location.

For this VxVM bug, you need to upgrade to the latest version available from http://software.hp.com

-Arun

[Senthil Kumar .A_1]

Hi Sidarth,

Arun has a valid point as far as some other software vendors product.

But as far as HP S/W products are concerned, it stores the codeword in the sai file, i.e., /var/adm/sw/.codewords.

I see that you have searched under /var/adm instead of /var/adm/sw directory.

Anyway if its missing, that means there is no Licensed software from HP that was installed. To double check you can search for products like "mirror ux" for instance. I will provide some other licenced products to check in your machine ,after consulting the licensing site.

Regards,
Senthil Kumar .A

[Sidharth Gurswamy]

Thanks again... maybe we dont have any separate licensed products from HP!!! I checked at /var/adm/sw only...

Arun...

Just wanted to confirm that if I upgrade to the latest version, does this mean that at 2007, after the supposed expiry date, i can still do online extension and shrinking of the filesystems?

and just another queston, what is the bug exactly any idea... i would like to know the implications of this in case it requires a reboot or not? what are the possible implications of not upgrading...

thanks and cheers,
sid

[Arunvijai_4]

Just wanted to confirm that if I upgrade to the latest version, does this mean that at 2007, after the supposed expiry date, i can still do online extension and shrinking of the filesystems?

Yes, You can able to do that.

and just another queston, what is the bug exactly any idea... i would like to know the implications of this in case it requires a reboot or not? what are the possible implications of not upgrading...

You can take a look at the thread pointed out by Senthil. Also, see this too.

https://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=845849

(Read Melvyn's Reply)

-Arun

[Senthil Kumar .A_1]

As promised,

These are few licenced HP products that you may wish to check in your HPUX system.

B2491BA MirrorDisk/UX (Server)
B3693AA HP GlancePlus/UX for s800 11.23
B3901BA HP C/ANSI C Developer's Bundle (S800)
B3913DB HP aC++ Compiler (S800)
T1905BA Serviceguard
J4240AA Auto-Port Aggregation Software
B3929DA HP OnLineJFS (Server)

to search, ex
swlist -l product B2491BA

Regards,
Senthil Kumar .A