Re: [Networker] How to avoid license conflict between two servers?
2010-02-25 10:20:34
STANLEY R. HORWITZ wrote:
On 02 24, 2010, at 8:58 PM, George Sinclair wrote:
Hi,
We have a new test server operating under 30 day eval. Getting ready to
put this into production soon. Still testing. We will be recovering the
media database and resource database from our older current server (DR
recover) in order to test some recoveries of older data and to run some
queries against the media database to verify that it looks the same as
on the older server.
The old server is still handling nightly backups until the testing has
been completed on the new machine, however. Both servers have different
host names, but the same client id (I made sure of that).
I'm concerned about the possibility that both servers could get shut
down when the test server sees that it now has licenses assigned to the
old server (as a result of recovering the old server's resource
database). But I don't want to have to recreate all the NSR resources
from scratch, though, and I don't really want to have to shut down the
old server during our tests.
Questions:
1. Do we have to do the host transfer/affidavit immediately and get new
keys even though we're not ready to go live just yet?
2. Can I avoid the license conflict issue by removing all the files on
the new test server under /nsr/res/nsrdb that contain any enabler codes
from the old server?
Just contact your EMC account manager to request whatever temporary license
enablers you need for the test server.
I'm still unclear on how that will resolve the fact that when we run the
DR recover, we'll still have the old server's res database recovered as
res.R. When we rename that to res, we'll still have the old server's
licenses in there. We then add the new enablers, but it might be too
late? I do want to recover the old server's res so I don't have to
recreate all the resources from scratch.
Alternatively, if we add the temporary enablers before the DR, then
they'll be under the current res directory, not res.R, so we won't have
them when we do the rename, and then we're back in the same boat?
George
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