VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Installation Guide (August 2002)

Chapter 1, Before You Start

Installation and Upgrade Requirements

Add or Upgrade Licenses

VxVM 3.5 introduces a new licensing package, VRTSvlic, that is common to all new

VERITAS products. The VRTSvlic package replaces the functionality of the VRTSlic

package that was used in VxVM 3.2 and earlier releases. The following table lists

equivalency between licensing commands in VRTSlic and VRTSvlic:

Any existing valid VxVM license keys are accepted for backward compatibility on

upgrading to VxVM 3.5. The new licensing package silently converts the old key to a new

value. However, you may need to obtain additional licenses for features that are new in

VxVM 3.5. You should retain the old VRTSlic package on your system if it is required by

any installed VERITAS products other than VxVM. If you choose to remove the VRTSlic

package to free up disk space, this does not delete the existing license key ﬁles.

If youare upgradingto VxVM 3.5 andhave not yet addedthe VRTSvlic package to your

system, you can use the following commands to view the currently installed licenses:

# vxlicense -p

# /usr/sbin/vxliccheck -pv

If you need to add new licenses to support features in VxVM 3.5, you must add the new

licensing package, VRTSvlic.

After the VRTSvlic package has been installed, you can view the currently installed

licenses (for both VRTSlic and VRTSvlic) with the following command:

# vxlicrep

To add new licenses to VxVM and to other VERITAS products that use the VRTSvlic

package for licensing, enter the following command:

# vxlicinst

For any installed VERITAS products that use the VRTSlic package for licensing, use the

following command to add new licenses:

# vxlicense -c

For moreinformation about the new licensing commands in the VRTSvlic package, refer

to the vxlicinst(1), vxlicrep(1) and vxlictest(1) manual pages.

VRTSlic command VRTSvlic command Description

vxlicense -c vxlicinst Installs a license.

vxlicense -p vxlicrep Reports installed licenses.

vxlicense -t vxlictest Tests a license.