On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 04:23:12PM +1000, David Fitch wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 04:12:40PM +1000, Jill Rowling wrote: > > Of course if you have to replace the license server, you have to buy (or > > negotiate) new licenses with the vendor. That's why people usually use a > > license host with high reliability hardware like a sparc rather than a PC. > > The license codes usually cost more than the hardware, so you don't want to > > be changing the hostid of the license server anytime soon. > > or when you change/upgrade your license server you change the > hostid to match the old one (not that anyone would actually do > that of course [cough cough] but it's possible).
Umm.. of course, that is exactly what people would actually do! All Sun systems contain their hostid on a chip (or on some newer systems, a smart-card) on the motherboard. This chip can be moved between machines at will, thus taking the hostid with it. (And if you're moving it between hosts with different types of hostid chips, Sun will happily burn you a new one with the old hostid) Scott. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
