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Re: [Networker] How to get a 40-slot Autochanger license to work for a 42 slot library?

2008-02-01 00:32:24
Subject: Re: [Networker] How to get a 40-slot Autochanger license to work for a 42 slot library?
From: Siobhán Ellis <siobhanellis AT HOTMAIL DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:26:54 +1100
I'm not sure with 7.2, but try modifying the field Physical Slots using
nsradmin.

I definitely doe snot work with 7.3 or 7.4. It used to work on earlier
versions

Siobhan


On 1/2/08 12:22 PM, "Willeat, Todd" <Todd.Willeat AT MERCY DOT NET> wrote:

> Unless you can make the library report 40 physical slots, I think you'll
> need the 64 slot license...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
> On
> Behalf Of George Sinclair
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 7:04 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] How to get a 40-slot Autochanger license to work
> for a 42 slot library?
> 
> I'm not sure if this will work, but I have a 42 slot Quantum M1800 (two
> M1500s stacked)
> tape library with a 64 slot Autochanger. I have an snode managing this,
> running 7.2.2 on Linux.
> I'll bite the bullet on the 64-slot license if there's no way around it,
> 
> but I'd really like to get this to
> work with a 40 slot license to save cost. That way we could upgrade a 32
> 
> slot license we no longer
> need to a 40 slot for the Quantum and then upgrade the 64-slot license
> to a 128 slot license for a new library.
> This would be a big savings, I don't care about giving up two slots.
> Those last two slots are fixed slots that
> can be used for data cartridges, but are usually reserved for cleaning
> cartridges, and I don't let NW do the cleaning.
> 
> To test, I added a 40 slot temp license (exp date = Mar 15, 2008),
> removed the permanent license, stopped and restarted everything.
> When I try to mount tapes, NW complains with the following:
> 
> Jukebox 'rd=snode:M1800' failed: The jukebox 'rd=snode:M1800' is not
> properly licensed.  Make sure
> the jukebox is properly enabled and authorized.
> 
> A soon as I re-added the 64-slot license it started working properly -
> no restart required. Well, this didn't surprise me.
> The jukebox config lists the physical slots as 1-42, but I do have
> available slots listed at 1-40 because when I originally
> configured the library I told NW to reserve slots 41-42 for cleaning. I
> later switched to doing cleaning on the library.
> I tried clearing out the 'Cleaning slots' field, but that didn't resolve
> 
> this issue. NW still lists:
> 
> 41  Cleaning Tape (17 us
> 42  Cleaning Tape (29 us
> 
> in the mount window (nwadmin).  If I run 'changers -ldv' on the snode,
> it reports:
> 
> [email protected]:Vendor <M4 DATA>, Product <MagFile>, Revision <12.0>
> 
>          1 MT Element(s) starting at address 32
>         40 ST Element(s) starting at address 192
>          4 DT Element(s) starting at address 128
> 
> I've not tried removing the jukebox and reconfiguring it with nsrjb. I
> think when I originally configured
> it, I hadn't first enabled Cleaning on the library for those two slots.
> 
> 1. Should I try removing the jukebox and reconfiguring it now that the
> library is set to see those two slots
> as cleaning slots? Might that work?
> 
> 2. How about if I run nsradmin and then change the physical slots from
> 1-42 to 1-40? I've never tried that,
> but I don't think it's possible in nwadmin. It does appear editable in
> nsradmin, though?
> 
> 3. If that won't work, could I shut down NW on the primary sever and
> snode and then manually edit
> the corresponding res file
> (/nsr/res/nsrdb/06/001a00fb000000000000000044d20f130a5aeb07)?
> This appears to be an ASCII file. Then restart everything? Would that be
> 
> a quick way to test it?
> Don't want to risk corrupting anything so just asking first.
> 
> Would appreciate any suggestions.
> 
> George
> 


Siobhán

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