Configure Licenses for RPM-only Installations

Note: If your system is running StorNext 7 (or later), contact your Quantum Sales representative to determine which subscription licenses are best suitable for your environment. See StorNext Licenses for more information.

The section below provides information on how to install StorNext 6.x MDC licenses from the command line for RPM-only Installations.

For File System installations, or in instances where there is no available StorNext GUI, StorNext license keys for the system can be installed manually. This section describes how to install licenses from the command line in those situations.

Note: Licenses must be installed “by hand” on RPM-only installations because there is no GUI to lead you through the steps.

Before installing a license.dat file ensure that exactly one key is present in the file for each licensed feature, and that a Maintenance license key is present. The new license file must be complete before proceeding to the next steps. If you are updating a license file, ensure that old keys are removed so that they do not interfere with the updated license keys.

If you are installing a license file for HA MDCs, make sure that the keys for both MDCs are present in the license.dat file before proceeding.

Depending on the configuration of the system you are updating, you will use a different set of installation steps to install the license keys for StorNext and components for RPM installations from the command line. Here are the possible installation scenarios:

Install a StorNext License Key on a Single-Node MDC

Install a StorNext License Key on an HA System (with a Shared File System)

Install a StorNext License Key on a Failover System (without a Shared File System)

  1. From the command line of the MDC, type the following command:

    service cvfs stop

    Caution: The command service cvfs stop will stop all StorNext services on the MDC.

  2. Navigate to the temporary location where you stored the new license.dat file.
  3. Copy the license.dat file to the /usr/cvfs/config/ directory on the MDC.

  4. Type the following command on the MDC:

    service cvfs start

Note: Stop the StorNext service on the secondary node of the HA system before stopping the StorNext service on the primary node.

  1. From the command line of the secondary node of an HA MDC (both File System and Storage Manager), type:

    service cvfs stop

    Caution: The command service cvfs stop will stop all StorNext services on the MDC.

  2. From the command line of the primary node of an HA MDC, type:

    service cvfs stop

    Caution: The command service cvfs stop will stop all StorNext services on the MDC.

  3. Navigate to the temporary location where you stored the new license.dat file.

  4. Copy the license.dat file to the /usr/cvfs/config/ directory on the primary node of the MDC.

    Note: Start the StorNext service on the primary node of the HA system before starting the StorNext service on the secondary node.

  5. From the command line of the primary node of an HA MDC, type:

    service cvfs start

  6. From the command line of the secondary node of an HA MDC, type:

    service cvfs start

Note: Wait up to 2 minutes for the license.dat file to propagate to the secondary node of the MDC. After 2 minutes, display the file and verify the license has been propagated on the secondary node.

Note: Stop the StorNext service on the secondary node of the HA system before stopping the StorNext service on the primary node.

  1. From the command line of the secondary node of an HA MDC, type:

    service cvfs stop

    Caution: The command service cvfs stop will stop all StorNext services on the MDC.

  2. From the command line of the primary node of an HA MDC, type:

    service cvfs stop

    Caution: The command service cvfs stop will stop all StorNext services on the MDC.

  3. Navigate to the temporary location where you stored the new license.dat file.
  4. Copy the license.dat file to the /usr/cvfs/config/ directory on the primary node of the MDC.

  5. Copy the license.dat file to the /usr/cvfs/config/ directory on the secondary node of the MDC.

    Note: Start the StorNext service on the primary node of the HA system before starting the StorNext service on the secondary node.

  6. From the command line of the primary node of an HA MDC, type:

    service cvfs start

  7. From the command line of the secondary node of an HA MDC, type:

    service cvfs start

The numbers displayed on the StorNext License screen represent licensed capacity, not utilized capacity. You can determine the actual capacity for the File System, LAN Clients, Failover and Maintenance licenses by running the following command from the command line:

# snlicense –v <license type>

When running this command, do not use capital letters or include the angled brackets around the license type.

To obtain capacities for the Storage Manager, Vaulting, Storage Disk, Checksum, DDM and Maintenance features, run the following command from the command line:

# sntsm -l –v <feature name>

Note: The character after the dash in the preceding command is the letter L, not the numeral 1. As before, when running this command do not use capital letters or include the angled brackets around the feature name.

For more information, see the man pages for both of these commands.