VxVM license

[Stefan FLOREA]

Hi Guys,
We have HP-UX 11i mission critical OE installed on a L-class server. Base VxVM comes with the OE but the initialization requires a password. How can we get it? Is it free?
Thank you
Stef

[Ashwani Kashyap]

use
#vxlicense -p
to show the available vxvm licences
DO
#/sbin/fs/vxfs/vxenablef -a
to activate those licences .

[Stefan FLOREA]

Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
# vxlicense -p
returns "no valid license installed".
This is a fresh OE installation and I guess I have to somehow get a license...
Stef

[Ashwani Kashyap]

The you will have to install your products from the application cd's . All licensed profucts will be codeword protected . YOu will have to request HP to give you the codewords for all your licensed products .
Once unlocked using the codewords , you can install them .

[James Lynch · Accepted solution]

If you are running VxVM version 3.5 it does not use vxlicense and vxenablef. It has a new licensing scheme call VRTSvlic. If you have that file set isntalled then you can run the /usr/sbin/vxlicrep command to report all of your current licenses. If you wish to install a new license you would use /usr/sbin/vxlicinst -k.

The 11i Mission Critical OE does have the base VxVM bundled by default and you should not have to do anything with the license to get it to work. See the "VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Release Notes" for more details.

JL

[Stuart Abramson_2]

I had to do the following to enable OnlineJFS:

a. Remember our licenses:

# vxlicense -p

vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Feature name: HP_OnlineJFS [50]
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Number of licenses: 1 (non-floating)
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Expiration date: Sun Jun 24 04:00:00 2007 (1370.6
days from now)
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Release Level: 22
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Machine Class: All
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Site ID: 0

b. This is the Base VxVM license, which includes HP_OnlineJFS.

c. However, it WON'T WORK, unless you ENABLE the license:

/sbin/fs/vxfs/vxenablef -a

vi /etc/inittab
Add:
vxen::bootwait:/sbin/fs/vxfs/vxenablef -a
init q

d. As near as I can tell, this isn't documented anywhere.

You wonder how people figure this out!