[Info-Ingres] IngresII Licensing

[Lucky Leavell]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Karl & Betty Schendel wrote:

> At 3:47 PM -0400 10/8/07, Lucky Leavell wrote:
> >I am trying to move an IngresII 2.0/0001 (sos.us5/00) with Patch 6900 from
> >an ancient SCO OSR50.5 to OSR5.0.7 running under VMWare Server and am
> >getting an invalid license error. I vaguely remember that the license is
> >tied to the NIC MAC address.
> >
> >I have transferred the /ca_lic directory and contents and /usr/local/CAlib
> >directories intact.
> >
> >Could someone give me a refresher course in what I need to do the make the
> >license valid again?
> 
> Dear me.  It's been a long time.
> 
> If you have an Ingres support subscription (for any box, not just
> that one), log in to servicedesk.ingres.com and check out the
> "Ingres Licensing" solution.  It was on my front page but I don't
> know how universal these things are.  You'll find an OLF file
> there that is supposed to be universally valid until Dec 2035.
>
Unfortunately, it has been out of support for a LONG time. We were going 
to migrate to Icebreaker but the "new" Ingres wants nearly twice as much 
as was paid for IngresII! So much for "open source". I found a couple of 
references to support.ca.com/techbases/ingres but that appears long gone 
at least to out-of-support dudes.

Anyway, I have several olf and even a cae file plus an safe copy of the 
entire directory just in case...

 > As a short-term alternative, I think the magic 
words 
were to > become root;  define II_SYSTEM;  cd $II_SYSTEM/ingres/install
> and do: ./mklicense
> and you would get 30 days worth of a grace license.
> 
> Karl
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