I have a serious problem with my flexlm licensing on hp-ux 11i.

Lmgrd can't find the ethernet mac address.

If I use the command lmutil lmhostid -ether it returns an empty
string.

I know that the current recommendation is to request license files
based on the lmhostid and not the physical mac addr, but I have
license files from three different companies that I need to get
working now.

Any work arrounds?

I heard that lmgrd does work on some 11.x machines and not others.
Anybody know why?

Thanks for any ideas!

-Stephen

sdonecker wrote:

> I have a serious problem with my flexlm licensing on hp-ux 11i.
>
> Lmgrd can't find the ethernet mac address.
>
> If I use the command lmutil lmhostid -ether it returns an empty
> string.
>
> I know that the current recommendation is to request license files
> based on the lmhostid and not the physical mac addr, but I have
> license files from three different companies that I need to get
> working now.
>
> Any work arrounds?
>
> I heard that lmgrd does work on some 11.x machines and not others.
> Anybody know why?

Check the permissions on /dev/lan0. They may need to be opened up
so lmhostid can read the MAC address.

- Greg
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Greg Cagle
gregc at gregcagle dot com

Greg Cagle <gregc@gregcagle.com> wrote in message news:<3FAD2A63.4060703@gregcagle.com>...
> sdonecker wrote:
>
> > I have a serious problem with my flexlm licensing on hp-ux 11i.
> >
> > Lmgrd can't find the ethernet mac address.
> >
> > If I use the command lmutil lmhostid -ether it returns an empty
> > string.
> >
> > I know that the current recommendation is to request license files
> > based on the lmhostid and not the physical mac addr, but I have
> > license files from three different companies that I need to get
> > working now.
> >
> > Any work arrounds?
> >
> > I heard that lmgrd does work on some 11.x machines and not others.
> > Anybody know why?
>
> Check the permissions on /dev/lan0. They may need to be opened up
> so lmhostid can read the MAC address.
>
> - Greg

I gave it a try, still no luck.

The permissions on /dev/lan0 are

crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 14 0x000000 Nov 7 19:08 lan0

Just to be specific, I get the following error when running

../lmutils lmhostid -ether

lmutil - Copyright (C) 1989-2002 Globetrotter Software, Inc.
The FLEXlm host ID of this machine is ""
lmhostid: Cannot find ethernet device (-29,175:2 "No such file or
directory")

What do you suppose can't find ethernet device means? Are they looking
to talk to a different device than lan0? Could I map something?

Thanks again,

-Stephen

sdonecker wrote:

> I gave it a try, still no luck.
>
> The permissions on /dev/lan0 are
>
> crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 14 0x000000 Nov 7 19:08 lan0
>
> Just to be specific, I get the following error when running
>
> ./lmutils lmhostid -ether
>
> lmutil - Copyright (C) 1989-2002 Globetrotter Software, Inc.
> The FLEXlm host ID of this machine is ""
> lmhostid: Cannot find ethernet device (-29,175:2 "No such file or
> directory")
>
> What do you suppose can't find ethernet device means? Are they looking
> to talk to a different device than lan0? Could I map something?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> -Stephen

As I remember, lmhostid is a script. You may want to tear it apart
and figure out exactly what it's looking for - it may have changed
since the last time I looked at it 8^).

- Greg
--
Greg Cagle
gregc at gregcagle dot com

sdonecker wrote:

> I gave it a try, still no luck.
>
> The permissions on /dev/lan0 are
>
> crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 14 0x000000 Nov 7 19:08 lan0
>
> Just to be specific, I get the following error when running
>
> ./lmutils lmhostid -ether
>
> lmutil - Copyright (C) 1989-2002 Globetrotter Software, Inc.
> The FLEXlm host ID of this machine is ""
> lmhostid: Cannot find ethernet device (-29,175:2 "No such file or
> directory")
>
> What do you suppose can't find ethernet device means? Are they looking
> to talk to a different device than lan0? Could I map something?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> -Stephen

As I remember, lmhostid is a script. You may want to tear it apart
and figure out exactly what it's looking for - it may have changed
since the last time I looked at it 8^).

- Greg
--
Greg Cagle
gregc at gregcagle dot com

sdonecker@sbcglobal.net (sdonecker) writes:

> ./lmutils lmhostid -ether
>
> lmutil - Copyright (C) 1989-2002 Globetrotter Software, Inc.
> The FLEXlm host ID of this machine is ""
> lmhostid: Cannot find ethernet device (-29,175:2 "No such file or
> directory")
>
> What do you suppose can't find ethernet device means? Are they looking
> to talk to a different device than lan0? Could I map something?

Why not learn to use 'tusc/truss' and answer your own questions?
Look for a line similar to this:

open("/foo/bar", O_RDONLY, 0) ................ ERR#2 ENOENT

Cheers,
--
In order to understand recursion you must first understand recursion.

In article <afc5c510.0311080919.58f8f96e@posting.google.com >, sdonecker@sbcglobal.net (sdonecker) writes:
> Lmgrd can't find the ethernet mac address.

my understanding is that the system calls used by lmgrd to find
the mac address were removed (obsoleted) in hp-ux 11.x and that
there is no way to use lmgrd with licenses tied to the mac address.

your best bet is to keep an hp-ux 10.20 machine around until you
can relicense the applications.

this is not an official statement of hp, i'm just telling you what i've
leared as an hp-ux user. if anyone knows anything to the contrary,
i'd love to hear it.
--
From the virtual mind of Allyn Fratkin allyn@sdd.hp.com
San Diego Site
Hewlett-Packard Company
http://www.fratkin.com/

Back when HP-UX 10.20 first shipped - what 1995 I guess, or eight
years ago, it was announced that LLA - Link-Level Access - was going
away and that all software that relied on LLA needed to migrate to
DLPI. It was also announced that any "new" drivers would not include
LLA support even on 10.20.

Well, things being what they are, natually, a few ISV's didn't pay
attention and didn't migrate. In 11.0, for some "workstation" drivers
(probably btlan3, the older lan2 driver - not to be confused with any
"lan2" interface), the LLA calls were kept or put back-in, with
another of those "you better start porting" reminders.

I suspect that now, in 2003, HP-UX 11i no longer has those LLA calls.
I know that the btlan3 driver no longer exists as a separate entity -
it was subsumed into the btlan driver that replaced btlan[3456].

rick jones
--
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these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway...
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Rick Jones wrote:

> Back when HP-UX 10.20 first shipped - what 1995 I guess, or eight
> years ago, it was announced that LLA - Link-Level Access - was going
> away and that all software that relied on LLA needed to migrate to
> DLPI. It was also announced that any "new" drivers would not include
> LLA support even on 10.20.
>
> Well, things being what they are, natually, a few ISV's didn't pay
> attention and didn't migrate. In 11.0, for some "workstation" drivers
> (probably btlan3, the older lan2 driver - not to be confused with any
> "lan2" interface), the LLA calls were kept or put back-in, with
> another of those "you better start porting" reminders.
>
> I suspect that now, in 2003, HP-UX 11i no longer has those LLA calls.
> I know that the btlan3 driver no longer exists as a separate entity -
> it was subsumed into the btlan driver that replaced btlan[3456].
>
> rick jones
Rick,
We have an issue between 11.0 and 11.i and it appears to be a arch
issue for lack of a better term. Is there any where that has the diffs
between 11.0 and 11i ? It doesn't run on .0 but does on i, no one has
been able to figure it out, HP or vendor....

Alan D Johnson <adjtech@usadatanet.net> wrote:
> We have an issue between 11.0 and 11.i and it appears to be a arch
> issue for lack of a better term. Is there any where that has the
> diffs between 11.0 and 11i ?

Release notes would be the first place I'd look.

> It doesn't run on .0 but does on i, no one has been able to figure
> it out, HP or vendor....

Are you sure you have the sense right there? Runs on 11.11, but not on
11.0?

Anyhow, what are the specifics - which driver(s) on each machine, for
which NICs, and do you have tusc traces of the working versus
non-working examples?

rick jones
--
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these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway...
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