I Just got a time to write about my all time favourite product “veritas”. This post is all about veritas volume manager and Veritas cluster licensing. These products will be mostly used on Enterprise computing environment and it provides great on-line functionality for managing volumes & filesystems. This product is worth for the money but as a system administrator, we can’t bear this price for testing it in our VMware. Symantec provides option use veritas products for 60 days trial period without installing the license keys(It also knowns as key-less installation).
Here we will some of the veritas license management commands.
1.How to install veritas product without license keys ?
We can install veritas products without license keys using keyless installation.
Refer:Installation of veritas cluster and volume manager
2.How to install new license keys for Veritas software ?
Using “vxlicinst”, we can install new license keys.
#vxlicinst Symantec License Manager vxlicinst utility version 3.02.60.007 Copyright (C) 1996-2011 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved. Enter your license key : XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-X License key successfully installed for VERITAS Cluster Server #
3.How to remove veritas keyless licensing feature ?
We can remove the keyless licensing feature using vxkeyless command.
#vxkeyless set NONE The following changes will take effect. Remove: SF Standard Edition with Cluster Server Continue (y/n)? y node2#
4.Where the veritas license keys will be stored ?
All the veritas license keys will be stored in “/etc/vx/licenses/lic”.
#cd /etc/vx/licenses/lic #ls -lrt total 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Sep 13 22:05 XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-X.vxlic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Sep 13 22:06 XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-X.vxlic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Sep 14 00:49 XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-X.vxlic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Sep 14 00:49 XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-X.vxlic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Sep 14 00:49 XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-X.vxlic #
5.How to complete veritas licensing information ?
Using “vxlicrep”,we can get all licensing information.
#vxlicrep Symantec License Manager vxlicrep utility version 3.02.60.007 Copyright (C) 1996-2011 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved. Creating a report on all VERITAS products installed on this system -----------------***********************----------------- License Key =XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-X Product Name = VERITAS Volume Manager Serial Number = 34876 License Type = PERMANENT OEM ID = 2006 Site License = YES Point Product = YES Features := Storage Expert = Enabled VxVM = Enabled CPU Count = Not Restricted PGR = Enabled Platform = un-used Version = 6.0 Maximum number of volumes = Not Restricted DMP Native Support = Enabled -----------------***********************----------------- License Key =XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-X Product Name = VERITAS Cluster Server Serial Number = 34876 License Type = PERMANENT OEM ID = 2006 Site License = YES Point Product = YES Features := Platform = Unused Version = 6.0 Tier = Unused Reserved = 0 Mode = VCS CPU_TIER = 0 #
6.To display the complete product keywords
#vxkeyless displayall Product Description SFBASIC Storage Foundation Basic Edition SFBASIC_EVAL Storage Foundation Basic Edition (EVALUATION only) SFSTD Storage Foundation Standard Edition SFSTD_EVAL Storage Foundation Standard Edition (EVALUATION only) SFSTD_VR Storage Foundation Standard Edition with VR SFSTD_VR_EVAL Storage Foundation Standard Edition with VR (EVALUATION only) SFSTD_VFR Storage Foundation Standard Edition with VFR SFSTD_VFR_EVAL Storage Foundation Standard Edition with VFR (EVALUATION only) SFENT Storage Foundation Enterprise Edition SFENT_EVAL Storage Foundation Enterprise Edition (EVALUATION only) SFENT_VR Storage Foundation Enterprise Edition with VR SFENT_VR_EVAL Storage Foundation Enterprise Edition with VR (EVALUATION only) SFENT_VFR Storage Foundation Enterprise Edition with VFR SFENT_VFR_EVAL Storage Foundation Enterprise Edition with VFR (EVALUATION only) VCS Cluster Server VCS_EVAL Cluster Server (EVALUATION only)
7.To list the short summary of licensing with valid license keys.
#vxlicrep -si Symantec License Manager vxlicrep utility version 3.02.60.007 Copyright (C) 1996-2011 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved. Creating a report on all VERITAS products installed on this system License Key =XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-X Product Name = VERITAS Volume Manager License Type = PERMANENT License Key =XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-X Product Name = VERITAS Cluster Server License Type = PERMANENT #
8.To list the product features ,
#vxdctl license All features are available: Mirroring Root Mirroring Concatenation Disk-spanning Striping RAID-5 VxSmartSync DMP (multipath enabled) DMP Native Support #
9.To check the specific features for specific license keys ,
#vxlictest -f FASTRESYNC -k XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-X FASTRESYNC feature is licensed # #vxlictest -f "Cross-platform Data Sharing" -k XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-X Cross-platform Data Sharing feature is licensed #
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