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Loads licenses, making them available for product authorization on the current node. The product licenses must be registered and current in the License Database. That is, they must not have been disabled or issued.

If the license is already loaded, LMF returns an informational message, unloads the license, and then loads the license.

To use this command, you need CMKRNL, SYSNAM, and SYSPRV privileges.

Format

LICENSE LOAD [product-name][,...]

Parameter

[product-name][,...]

Name or names of products with a license to be loaded. You can load only licenses that are currently registered and enabled in the License Database. Enter the product name exactly as it appears on your Product Authorization Key (PAK). If you do not specify a product name, LICENSE LOAD loads all of the products that are registered and enabled.

You cannot use wildcard characters for product-name.

Qualifiers

/AUTHORIZATION=string

Positional qualifier.

Specifies a string that helps identify the license you want to register. You must enter the authorization string exactly as it appears on your PAK. This qualifier affects only the product name that immediately precedes it in the command string.

/DATABASE=filespec

Location of the License Database. The default file specification is defined by the logical name LMF$LICENSE, which points to SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]LMF$LICENSE.LDB on an unmodified OpenVMS system. Use this optional qualifier only if you do not use the default License Database name and location.

/ISSUER=string

Positional qualifier.

Name of the company (for example, DEC) that issued the PAK for the product. Use this optional qualifier only if you need it to identify the license.

This qualifier affects only the product name that immediately precedes it in the command string.

/LOG (default)

/NOLOG

Controls whether or not LICENSE LOAD displays a message to acknowledge the loading of each license.

/OEDB - Integrity servers only

Using this qualifier refreshes the contents of the OE database. The contents of the OE database are described in a datafile (LMF$OE.DAT). If new variants of operating environments become available, HP will provide a new datafile with information on the new or changed operating environments. Using LICENSE LOAD/OEDB updates your OE database without having to reboot the system.

/PRODUCER=string

Positional qualifier.

Name of the company that owns the product for which you have a license. Use this optional qualifier only if you need it to identify the license. This qualifier affects only the product name that immediately precedes it in the command string.

/UNLOAD (default)

/NOUNLOAD

When requested to load a license that is currently loaded, LMF first automatically unloads it and then loads the latest license.

You can specify /NOUNLOAD to verify whether or not there is already a license loaded; LMF issues the warning LICENSE-W-ALREADYLOADED and does not load the license. To then load the license, follow these steps:

1. Manually unload the current license with the LICENSE UNLOAD command.
2. Reissue the LICENSE LOAD command.

Description

The LICENSE LOAD command loads licenses registered in the License Database. To use a licensed product, ensure that the system loads the registered license. When you register a license with VMSLICENSE.COM, you can confirm an option to load the license, whereas if you register a license with LICENSE REGISTER, you must also load it with LICENSE LOAD.

Use LICENSE LOAD only after you register a new license; LMF automatically loads all registered licenses at each subsequent system startup. You can enter LICENSE LOAD at other times to load modifications made with other LICENSE commands.

You can enter one LICENSE LOAD command without product-name to load all the available registered licenses.

Note Registered licenses are enabled for loading by default. You can, however, disable a registered license to prevent loading.

A LICENSE START command entered interactively or when the system reboots also loads all licenses that are registered and enabled.

If you register multiple licenses for a single product, LICENSE LOAD loads all of the matching licenses. You do not typically load individual licenses, and you cannot unload individual licenses for a product. The Availability, Activity, Personal Use, and User license units of the multiple licenses work in concert to provide more product availability.

In an OpenVMS Cluster environment, each system loads licenses when it reboots. If you need to load a license for all assigned nodes of a running cluster, you can do one of the following:

• Log in to each OpenVMS Cluster node, and enter LICENSE LOAD.
• Invoke the OpenVMS SYSMAN utility to execute the LICENSE LOAD command on the desired OpenVMS Cluster nodes. See the HP OpenVMS System Manager's Manual for details on defining your management environment and executing commands on a list of nodes.

A LICENSE LOAD command can fail, sending a message to the operator communication manager (OPCOM) for any of the following reasons:

• Insufficient license units are registered for the current node.
• The current date is later than the license termination date.
• A license checksum does not match the rest of the license data. Check for data corruption in the License Database.

If you attempt to load a disabled license or a license modified to exclude the current node in an OpenVMS Cluster environment, OPCOM does not display an error message.

If licenses for more than one product are being loaded, LICENSE LOAD continues with the next license following a failure.

Examples

$ LICENSE MODIFY /INCLUDE=MUSIC FORTRAN
$ LICENSE LOAD FORTRAN
 
      

The commands in this example illustrate a situation in which you enter a LICENSE LOAD command interactively. LICENSE LOAD loads the product Fortran on the node MUSIC. Data in the License Database determines whether the license is successfully loaded on the specified node.

$ LICENSE LOAD BASIC
%LICENSE-W-NOLOAD, license was not loaded for BASIC
-LICENSE-F-EXCEEDED, attempted usage exceeds active license limits
 
      

This command attempts to load the product BASIC, but LICENSE LOAD fails because too few license units are registered to authorize use on the current processor.

Modifies a license for system management and license-sharing purposes. Immediately changes data in the License Database, but your modifications do not affect the running system until you load the modified license.

Format

LICENSE MODIFY qualifier[,...] product-name[,...]

Parameter

product-name[,...]

Name or names of products with a license to be modified. You can modify only licenses that currently exist in the License Database.

Qualifiers

/ADD

Used with the /INCLUDE or /EXCLUDE qualifier, specifies that the node names provided are to be added to the previously established include or exclude lists.

Used with the /RESERVE qualifier, specifies that the user names provided are to be added to the previously established reservation lists.

When you use /ADD, you do not need to retype the entire list to add a new node name or user name.

/ALL

Positional qualifier.

Modifies all the licenses with the given product name. This qualifier affects only the product name that immediately precedes it in the command string.

/AUTHORIZATION=string

Positional qualifier.

Specifies a string that helps identify the license you want to modify. You must enter the authorization string exactly as it appears on your PAK. Use this optional qualifier only if you need it to identify the license. This qualifier affects only the product name that immediately precedes it in the command string.

/COMBINE

/NOCOMBINE

Modifies a PAK by adding or removing the COMBINE option. If the PAKs are combinable, LMF combines them during license loading.

/COMMENT=string

Specifies a string of text. Use this comment field of up to 63 characters to associate information for this transaction with the license. History records for the license retain this license information. If you specify more than one word, enclose the text in quotation marks (""). This qualifier is optional.

The text in the comment field is replaced only when you enter new comments with another LICENSE MODIFY command. At this point the old comment text is available as a history record.

/DATABASE=filespec

Specifies the location of the License Database. The default file specification is defined by the logical name LMF$LICENSE, which points to SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]LMF$LICENSE.LDB on an unmodified OpenVMS system. Use this optional qualifier only if you do not use the default License Database name and location.

/EXCLUDE=(node-name[,node-name,...])

Specifies that the named node or nodes in an OpenVMS Cluster environment cannot access the licensed product. The excluded nodes cannot load (with a LICENSE LOAD or LICENSE START command) the license registered in the License Database. Each node-name argument must be a System Communications Services (SCS) node name or a system parameter set with the System Generation utility (SYSGEN). The node name might not be the same as the DECnet node name. If you specify more than one node name, separate them with commas, and enclose the list in parentheses. This qualifier is optional.

To modify previously defined lists without having to retype all of the node names, use the /ADD or /REMOVE qualifiers with /EXCLUDE.

You can control license access to nodes with /EXCLUDE and control user access with /RESERVE, but you cannot use these qualifiers on the same command line. To use both types of control with the same license, you must enter separate LICENSE MODIFY commands.

/INCLUDE=(node-name[,node-name,...])

Specifies that the named node or nodes in an OpenVMS Cluster environment can access the licensed product. Only the included nodes can load (with a LICENSE LOAD or LICENSE START command) the license registered in the License Database. Each node-name argument must be an SCS node name, or a system parameter set with SYSGEN. The node name might not be the same as the DECnet node name.

Licenses for the OpenVMS operating system usually specify the NO_SHARE option on their PAKs. In a cluster environment you must restrict each of these OpenVMS licenses to a single node. If you did not do this when registering with VMSLICENSE.COM, enter LICENSE MODIFY/INCLUDE=node-name, specifying one SCS node name for each OpenVMS license.

To specify more than one SCS node name for a license that does not specify NO_SHARE, separate the names with commas, and enclose the list in parentheses. This qualifier is optional.

To modify previously defined lists without having to retype all of the node names, use the /ADD or /REMOVE qualifiers with /INCLUDE.

You can control license access to nodes with /INCLUDE and control user access with /RESERVE, but you cannot use these qualifiers on the same command line. To use both types of control with the same license, you must enter separate LICENSE MODIFY commands.

/ISSUER=string

Positional qualifier.

Specifies the name of the company (for example, DEC) that issued the PAK for the product. Use this qualifier only if it is required to identify the license. This qualifier affects only the product name that immediately precedes it in the command string.

/LOG

/NOLOG (default)

Controls whether LICENSE MODIFY displays the name of each license that it modifies.

/NO_SHARE

/NONO_SHARE

Specifies whether to add or subsequently remove /NO_SHARE from a PAK. Adding /NO_SHARE prevents the sharing of the PAK units with other cluster nodes.

PAKs with /NO_SHARE require you to provide the SCS node name of the cluster node that will be using this particular license. See the /INCLUDE qualifier for more information.

Note that if /NO_SHARE is present on your PAK when you register it, you cannot remove the option using /NONO_SHARE. Only if you add /NO_SHARE with the MODIFY command, can you subsequently remove it.

/PRODUCER=string

Positional qualifier.

Specifies the name of the company (for example, DEC) that owns the product for which you have a license. Use this optional qualifier only if you need it to identify the license. This qualifier affects only the product name that immediately precedes it in the command string.

/REMOVE

Used with the /INCLUDE or /EXCLUDE qualifier, specifies that the node names provided are to be removed from the previously established include or exclude lists.

Used with the /RESERVE qualifier, specifies that the user names provided are to be removed from the previously established reservation lists.

When you use /REMOVE, you do not need to retype the entire list to remove a node name or user name.

/RESERVE=(user-name[,user-name,...])

Specifies that the license or licenses are to be reserved for use by the users listed in the user-name parameter. Users not listed are denied access to the product. The value applied to user-name differs from product to product. See your Software Product Description (SPD) for details.

Most products define user-name to be the user name OpenVMS maintains for each account. This is the name you type at the Username prompt during login.

If your PAK specifies the RESERVE_UNITS option, you must assign one or more users to a reservation list. On OpenVMS Alpha and VAX systems, the number of user names allowed per list depends on the number of activity units available and a constant value or the License Unit Requirement Tables (LURTs). Calculate this number as you would for any Activity License. For example, a 200-unit license with a constant value of 100 is a two-user license. On OpenVMS Integrity server systems, units are expressed in single units that directly correlate to the constant value listed.

You can also create and modify a reservation list for Availability and regular Activity Licenses that do not specify the RESERVE_UNITS option. Because these licenses do not limit the number of names on the list, you can assign as many names as you like to the reservation list. All users not on the list are denied access.

Although you can control license access to nodes with /INCLUDE and /EXCLUDE qualifiers and control user access with the /RESERVE qualifier, you cannot use these qualifiers on the same command line. If you want to use both types of control with the same license, you must enter separate LICENSE MODIFY commands.

Use the /ADD and /REMOVE qualifiers for further control in modifying previously established reservation lists.

/SELECTION_WEIGHT=number

Modifies the selection weight. Selection-weight values determine the order in which LMF checks multiple licenses when a product makes a license grant request. LMF checks higher-weighted licenses before lower-weighted ones. Specify arbitrary numbers between 1 and 1000.

Note You cannot modify selection weights for Availability Licenses.

To restore the selection weight of a PAK to the default value, enter the LICENSE MODIFY command with /SELECTION_WEIGHT=0. For example, you can use either of the following commands:

$ LICENSE MODIFY FORTRAN /SELECTION_WEIGHT=0 $ LICENSE MODIFY FORTRAN /NOSELECTION_WEIGHT

/TERMINATION_DATE=date

Date at which the product license is to be terminated. If your PAK supplied a license termination date, LMF uses the earliest date to determine the termination date. The date must be presented in the standard OpenVMS format: dd-mmm-yyyy. If you want to restrict a product from further use today, enter yesterday's date; LMF terminates the license at the end of the day specified.

/UNITS=n

Number of license units you want on a license that includes the MOD_UNITS option. If your PAK allows you to modify the license units, use this qualifier to change the value in the License Database.

/VIRTUAL

/NOVIRTUAL

Specifies that the modified license must only be loaded on OpenVMS guests. Virtual licenses are ignored during physical machine LICENSE LOAD command processing. To see the licenses that are ignored, use the /LOG qualifier with the LICENSE LOAD command. Use the /NOVIRTUAL qualifier to remove the virtual option from the license.

The /VIRTUAL qualifier is valid for licenses with the IA64 and PCL options.

Licenses that you intend to load on OpenVMS guest cluster members must be modified with the /VIRTUAL qualifier. It is optional, but recommended to modify licenses for standalone OpenVMS guest systems with the /VIRTUAL qualifier.

HP recommends that you use /INCLUDE or /EXCLUDE lists on your virtual machine host licenses to define all the OpenVMS guest cluster members from a host that must load the license. In future, HP may limit the usage of a Virtual license to one host, which is the first host that loads the license.

Description

Use the LICENSE MODIFY command to modify a license. To control which nodes in a cluster environment have access to what software, use LICENSE MODIFY with the /INCLUDE or /EXCLUDE qualifier. For example, you can load licenses for products used less often or requiring limited access on one node.

If you do not specify which nodes can load a license (with a LICENSE LOAD or LICENSE START command), LMF loads a license on a first-come, first-served basis. When your license has insufficient license units for full cluster environment use, control product access with an include list.

Because most OpenVMS PAKs use the /NO_SHARE option, in a cluster environment you must restrict these operating system licenses to one node. Enter LICENSE MODIFY/INCLUDE=node-name, specifying only one SCS node name for each OpenVMS license.

To control which users have access to a product, use LICENSE MODIFY with the /RESERVE qualifier. You can create and modify a reservation list for any kind of license. Only users on the reservation lists are allowed access to the product.

If your PAK specifies the RESERVE_UNITS option, you must assign one or more users to a reservation list. The number of user names allowed per list depends on the number of activity units available and a constant value or the License Unit Requirement Tables (LURTs). Calculate this number as you would for any Activity License. For example, a 200-unit license with a constant value of 100 is a two-user license.

Use the /ADD and /REMOVE qualifiers in conjunction with the /INCLUDE, /EXCLUDE, and /RESERVE qualifiers when you modify existing include, exclude, and reservation lists.

To add comments about a license in the License Database, use LICENSE MODIFY with the /COMMENT qualifier.

If your PAK includes the MOD_UNITS option, you can use the /UNITS qualifier to specify the number of license units you want for your registered license.

Use the other LICENSE MODIFY command qualifiers only as needed to identify the correct license.

You can also modify a license record using the VMSLICENSE.COM command procedure.

List Size Restrictions

Two restrictions apply to the size of lists (reservation lists, include lists, or exclude lists). These restrictions apply to PAKs of all license types.

• On any single PAK, the sum of characters contained in all lists must not exceed 5000 characters.
  Because the length of names varies and some overhead is used for each name, this 5000-character limit cannot be expressed as an exact number of permissible names. However, HP guarantees that at least 400 names, in total, can be specified in the various types of lists. For example, each of the following represents the minimally guaranteed number of names:
  • Reservation list with up to 400 user names
  • Reservation list with up to 200 user names plus an include list with up to 200 node names (totaling up to 400)
  • Reservation list with up to 200 user names plus an exclude list with up to 200 node names (totaling up to 400)
  • Include list with up to 400 node names
  • Exclude list with up to 400 node names

  Note If you enter more names than are permitted, LICENSE LIST might not be able to display all names entered. In this case, you receive the error message LICENSE-F-CORRUP. However, the License Database is not actually corrupt, and the PAKs can still be loaded into memory (though the names are not displayed).

• The LICENSE LOAD and LICENSE START commands can load into memory a reservation list with no more than 30,000 characters. (Include and exclude lists, which are not loaded into memory, are irrelevant to the 30,000-character limit.)
  Because the length of names varies and some overhead is used for each name, this 30,000-character limit cannot be expressed as an exact number of permissible names. But HP guarantees that, for each product, at least 2000 user names can appear on reservation lists. In the case of an OpenVMS Cluster, this is a per-node limit.
  Note that, because 2000 user names is a per-product limit and because there can be more than one PAK per product, the number of user names on a per-product basis is the sum of the user names specified on each PAK.
  For example, if three activity PAKs for the DECwrite product were registered on a system and each PAK specified a reservation list with 200 user names, the total number of user names for that product is 600. This is safely below the 30,000-character (2000 user name) limit and below the 5000-character (400 user name) limit.

Examples

$ LICENSE MODIFY /EXCLUDE=(DANCE,THEATR) -
_$ /COMMENT="Modified to exclude nodes DANCE & THEATR 10/23/04" -
_$ FORTRAN
 
      

This command modifies the Fortran license in the License Database so that users cannot access Fortran from the nodes named DANCE and THEATR. A comment is added to the database record for future reference.

$ LICENSE MODIFY /ADD /INCLUDE=(DRAMA) -
_$ /COMMENT="Modified to add node named DRAMA 10/23/04" -
_$ FORTRAN
 
      

This command modifies the Fortran license in the License Database so that users can access Fortran from the node DRAMA in addition to any nodes previously named in the license include list.

$ LICENSE MODIFY /UNITS=1200 FORTRAN 
$ LICENSE LOAD FORTRAN 
 
      

This command changes the license units on a license with the MOD_UNITS option.

$ LICENSE MODIFY /TERMINATION_DATE=1-JAN-2005 FORTRAN
 
      

Unless an earlier termination date exists, this command sets a new termination date of 1-JAN-2005 for the Fortran license.

$  LICENSE MODIFY /EXCLUDE="" FORTRAN
      

This command removes all nodes from the previously established exclude list. All nodes now have access to the Fortran license.