[Info-vax] HP Integrity rx2800 i4 (2.53GHz/32.0MB) :: PAKs won't load

[dgordonatvsi at gmail.com]

>From the HP OpenVMS License Management Utility Manual, Section 5.2.1

If you have multiple system disks in an OpenVMS Cluster environment where all the systems can access one of the system disks, put your common License Database on the readable disk. For any systems that boot from a separate system disk, you must redirect LMF to the License Database. Define the logical name LMF$LICENSE to be the disk where the database exists.

If you have multiple system disks in an OpenVMS Cluster environment where some systems cannot access one of the system disks, you must keep separate identical License Databases. Whenever one database is modified, you must copy it to update the other databases.

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The other problem we're working on is a problem in mixed-producer clusters only.  Clair thought the problem looked similar, but this one is just a case of a split license database as far as I can tell.

--Doug


> THey're clustered across a distance for DR.
> 
> 
> >> I'm working with a customer who has 2 HP Integrity rx2800 i4 (2.53GHz/32.0MB)
> >> (from $ SHOW CPU output).  Each has a separate system disk because they will 
> >> be clustered at disparate sites.  The PAKs on one of the nodes load but they
> >> do not load on the other.  I've checked that each node has different/unique 
> >> PAKs by authorization numbers.  Listed below:
> >

> I've been having an email discussion with Clair Grant WRT this issue.  It's
> NOT a simple issue of having to use /INCLUDE.  It's an issue that VSI have
> been looking into already and, as Clair said in email, "what a coincidence 
> - your issue and the problem we have been looking into."
> 
> Hang tight, I've confidence that they'll suss out the issue and correct it.
> 
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