Hi George,
As far as I'm aware, install date is indeed the limit for evaluation. You can
extend your trial time by entering a special auth code for the Server enabler;
this will give you 15 days extra.
(Please ask EMC2 for this code, I'm not altogether sure if it's allowed to send
it to the list). Only the Server handles licensing, not the Storage Node. This
will function as long as there is an Enabler on the Server (I've excluded the
License Server option here).
If the supplied evalution time isn't enough, you can renew it by stopping the
NSR and GST services (Linux: nsr_shutdown and /etc/init.d/gst stop) and
removing the res and mm directories. This means you'll loose all settings and
indexes, but you won't need to reinstall everything.
And the NMC (GST) can be installed on a completely different machine, so it's
not dependent on NW, although the Client component is required.
Good luck evaluating,
Alexander
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of George Sinclair
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 8:27 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] License question on NW?
Does the clock for the built-in 30 day temp server license start ticking
as soon as you start up NW? Will it check the install date and go from
there, or will it start with the time it was first launched? What about
the snode server?
I recently installed 7.5 server software on a new Linux machine and the
7.5 snode software on a new Linux snode, but I've purposely not started
the daemons yet because I want to make the most use of our 30 day time
window as possible before permanently transferring our old licenses from
our older server. As a result, I don't want to start it up until I have
enough free time to test it; otherwise, I'm wasting the clock. Now, I'm
busy with some other things and won't have time to play around with it
for another week. I hope it's not going to go based on the install date
because then I've already been wasting the clock!
I'd rather not have to do this, but I assume you could uninstall it and
re-install to start the clock over, right?
Also, I have to install NMC, but can I do this without starting up NW first?
--
George Sinclair
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