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Preparing Your System to Run VMSINSTAL.COM  



This section provides guidelines for preparing your system for using VMSINSTAL.COM. Note that each software product that you install might not require you to follow all of the guidelines listed in this section.

Performing Preliminary Operations  

Before you use VMSINSTAL.COM, perform the following operations (not necessarily in the order listed):

Registering and Loading Licenses  

A license refers to the authorization you have to use a product. The License Management Facility (LMF) enables you to register, manage, and track software licenses on line.

A Product Authorization Key (PAK) contains information that is provided for many HP products. The data provided in the PAK allows you to register a software license in the license database on a system.

If you did not register and load your operating system license during the installation of the OpenVMS operating system, you must perform that task (and register other licenses, if necessary) before you install other software products, as explained in the following steps:

  1. Log in to the system manager's account, SYSTEM.
  2. Register the license in one of two ways:
  3. Use either of the following utilities to load a license: Only the local node requires the installation of a license before you use VMSINSTAL.COM.

For more information about loading licenses, refer to the OpenVMS License Management Utility Manual .

Preventing Nodes from Sharing PAKs  

The /NO_SHARE qualifier for the LICENSE MODIFY command lets you add the NO_SHARE option to a PAK registered in a license database (LDB). NO_SHARE PAKs are assigned to a single node in an OpenVMS Cluster system. A NO_SHARE PAK cannot be shared with other OpenVMS Cluster nodes.

This qualifier remedies problems that occasionally occur when you attempt to use the PAK of a software product for which you already have other PAKs in your LDB. The PAK does not combine with the other PAKs for the same software product, resulting in LICENSE-W-NOCOMB warnings. Often, the license is not loaded on the nodes on which you want it loaded.

To remedy this problem, perform the following actions:

  1. Add the NO_SHARE option to the PAK or PAKs causing the NOCOMB warnings.
  2. Assign each PAK to a specific OpenVMS Cluster node.

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