Conversion to 710G2 on OVMS 6.2 from 620E

[Balsdon, Bruce BJ]

Ivy,

I'm with Arthur. We've never got the licencing on the Alpha to work, having been through 710E to 710E6 ( slowly & painfully ), then 710F and now 710G. We also have a demo licence which we have to keep renewing.

regards,
bruce

Bruce Balsdon
Information Systems Manager
BHP Building Products Australia
Phone 02 9794 6344  Fax 02 9794 6466
balsdon.bruce.bj@bhp.com.au

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Kogan, Arthur(50 Pitt) [mailto:akogan@westpac.com.au]
> Sent:	Tuesday, 3 August 1999 10:39
> To:	analyst@LIFE.UAMS.EDU; powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject:	RE: Conversion to 710G2 on OVMS 6.2 from 620E
> 
> Hi Ivy.
> 
> All I can say is good luck. I do not know of one site where the license deamon works properly on ALPHAs. The deamon will work for a while and then suddenly stop accepting requests. At this point you can kill the deamon process and restart it. Then it will work again... until it stops. The problem with this is, you do not know when it is going to stop, which is rather dangerous, since it can stop in the middle of a batch run, with some jobs able to run (before it stops) and others not. Note: this problem is peculiar to ALPHAs only and does not seem to occur on any other platform, even on VAX. The problem has been brought to Cognos's attention for years, but is still to be resolved. To be fair to Cognos, their license deamon relies on third party software and it is not certain where the problem lies. 
> 
> The only foolproof solution we found is to get Cognos to supply us a demo key, which does not need the deamon to be running. Unfortunately, since Cognos will not provide a long term demo key, we need to go through a relicensing exercise on a regular bases, in our case every 9 months.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Arthur Kogan
> Westpac Financial Services
> Sydney, Australia
> 
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From:	analyst@LIFE.UAMS.EDU [SMTP:analyst@LIFE.UAMS.EDU]
> 	Sent:	Friday, 30 July 1999 11:29 PM
> 	To:	powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> 	Subject:	Conversion to 710G2 on OVMS 6.2 from 620E
> 
> 	This week-end I plan to put a system online that I have converted to 710G2.
> 	 We're currently on OVMS 6.2 on an Alpha. All our current Powerhouse
> 	applications are still in 620E, therefore we have never used the Flexlm
> 	license yet.  Any tips, hints???  
> 
> 	I plan to monitor the license daemon Monday, using lmstat, to see the
> 	number and type of licenses used.  If all of the licenses run out, what
> 	happens?  We're trying to get the correct mix of licenses.  How have you
> 	guys analyzed your systems/users to get the correct number and type of
> 	licenses?  
> 
> 	Any advise is welcomed.
> 
> 	Is there anyone out there that is still on 620E and plan to stay there,
> 	even after the year 2000?
> 
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 	Ivy Harrison
> 	University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
> 	Little Rock, AR
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