OCDB Driver and machine serial number

ODBC Driver.

Good day all, thanks for the help with the previous post. Its given me plenty to work on. Along with this, I've had another issue that has risen this week.

When Live Partition Mobile'ing a AIX Server, we hit problems with the OCDB driver. Namely that the server moves live with no issue, until you restart UniVerse, then we get license problems. If the server is moved back to the original machine, the license problem still occurs. So it needs to be reset. Now I know that on our Redhat VMware environments this is not a problem, and I'm sure its something that I could fix, but before I re-invent the wheel, I figured I'd ask here.

Thanks,

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Daniel Martin-Corben
Rocket Forum Shared Account
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Daniel,

UniVerse (and UniData) take a hardware signature (combining several elements) of the machine when installed and licenced. If they detect that something has changed in that signature then they will become unlicensed. We have seen that on VMware that moving instances doesn't always trigger a change in the generated hardware signature, hence does not become unlicenced. The AIX LPM (Live Partition Mobility) must change something that results in one or more of the elements of hardware signature changing, so there is nothing you can fix.

Before anyone asks we will not be disclosing what makes up the signature :-)


Regards,