ADIC 3.5 manual BFS Issues License to Clients, Registration File Monitors License

System Administrator’s Guide to Installing DataMgr

BFS Issues License to Clients

Registration

File Monitors

License

The BFS issues each DMFS client the appropriate license level after receiving information on the amount of disk storage it manages on the client machine. If a license for the appropriate level is not available, the BFS issues the client a license for the next higher level. If all licenses are in use, the request is denied. (For a description of DataMgr components, refer to “Components” on page 1-4in DataMgr Overview.)

For example, if a client has 3GB of space for management, it needs a Level 1 license. If a Level 1 licenses is not available, the BFS will try to issue a Level 2 license, and if there are none available, it will try to issue a Level 3 license.

If a client attempts to use either file replication or multi-tier migration, but the BFS does not have the appropriate feature license, the operation will fail.

On the BFS, DataMgr maintains a registration file located in /etc/bfs/registered. This file (an example is shown below) monitors all levels of licenses that are authorized and in use at any given time.

Serial number: DM-00539

License installed on Tue Jan 5 17:46:38 1999 Allowed license levels:

Number of level 1: 25

Number of level 2: 3

Number of level 3: 1

Current license levels in use:

Level 1 checked out: 8

Level 2 checked out: 1

Level 3 checked out: 1

Prerequisites

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