Starting with SFHA 5.1 keyless licensing is a customer facing wrapper which is designed to make licensing a product easier for the customer.  It will be included with the VRTSvlic package installed with the product.  It is called by the Common Platform Installer (CPI) during a fresh installation.  It can also be called by a user when displaying available licenses or installed licenses.  It will be called when the customer is installing or uninstalling keyless licenses on their systems.

 

Check the available license types.

# vxkeyless displayall
Product                         Description
FOUNDATION                       Veritas InfoScale Foundation
STORAGE                          Veritas InfoScale Storage
AVAILABILITY                     Veritas InfoScale Availability
ENTERPRISE                       Veritas InfoScale Enterprise
TRIALWARE                        Veritas Infoscale Enterprise
 

 

Enable keys:

Note, in InfoScale only one product needs to be specified:

 

The command will automatically generate a licensing key from a database and associate it to the system(s).

Platforms that will be affected by this change are Solaris (both SPARC and x86), AIX, and Linux (RedHat, SUSE, and Oracle EL)

 

Executables exist in the following places:

 

To Retrieve the current product level:

 

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