Activate or deactivate PMDF bundle licenses on a node.

Syntax

PMDF LICENSE operation-type

Command Qualifiers	Defaults
None.	None.

restrictions

Requires SYSNAM and CMEXEC privileges.

prompts

Parameters

operation-type

The type of operation to perform. May be one of LOAD or UNLOAD.

Description

The PMDF LICENSE utility is used to activate (load) or deactivate (unload) a PMDF license Product Authorization Key (PAK) on a given OpenVMS system. The PMDF license PAK must already be loaded with the OpenVMS LICENSE utility. However, that is not sufficient to activate the license. PMDF's model for debitting license usage units (based upon CPU type) differs from HP's. Because of this difference, an additional utility---the PMDF LICENSE utility -- is required to properly debit usage units from a PMDF license PAK.

Normally the PMDF LICENSE utility is run at system startup by the pmdf_startup.com command procedure. However, it may also be run manually. When it is used to unload a license, the usage units used by that machine are made available for use by other systems in the cluster.

Note that the use of the OpenVMS LICENSE utility is sufficient for loading and activating license PAKs for PMDF-MTA, PMDF-DIRSYNC, PMDF-LAN, PMDF-MSGSTORE, PMDF-POPSTORE, and PMDF-TLS. The PMDF LICENSE utility does not need to be (and cannot be) used to activate license PAKs for PMDF-MTA or the listed layered products.

EXAMPLES

To activate a PMDF license, use the command

$ PMDF LICENSE LOAD %PMDF-I-LOADED, 1 license unit loaded

Had the license already of been activated then the informational message

%PMDF-I-ALREADY, 1 license unit already loaded

would have been displayed. To deactivate a license, use the command

$ PMDF LICENSE UNLOAD %PMDF-I-UNLOADED, 1 license unit unloaded