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- From: jhwelch@ecs.umass.edu
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- Subject: Determining the status of a license
- Message-ID: <19671.2b5ebe5f@ecs.umass.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:16:47 GMT
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- In order to print to a new DEClaser 1152 I had to install DECprint Supervisor,
- the print symbiont that superscedes CPS. It turns out that in order
- to have it translate ascii files with imbedded escape sequences
- an extra license must be purchased.
-
- We just purchased the license and I've loaded it on one of the machines
- in our cluster. Because it has a UNITS limit I can't load it
- on other nodes. If the node it's loaded on goes away (which could be
- one of many) I'd like to have my hourly "look for trouble spots" job
- automatically load it on an alternate host (assuming the operator
- doesn't catch it first).
-
- Since a LICENSE LOAD command realizes it's already loaded somewhere
- else there must be an undocumented system call that performs this
- task. EXE$CHECK_LICENSE looks like a promising area to investigate
- but of course it's not on the listing CD.
-
- I'd prefer any solution that doesn't involve grungy DCL (e.g.
- parsing the output of some command). I suppose I could have
- my hourly job try to load it and check what's in $STATUS but
- just for fun I'm also curious if anyone knows how the internal
- routines can be accessed.
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- Jonathan Welch VAX Systems Manager Umass/Amherst JHWELCH@ecs.umass.edu
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