FYI, I followed up with development on this issue and we couldn't duplicate it in house. Adding or upgrading a valid license (i.e. not expired) through the Administration Console to an AR System 7.1.00 server running on Linux worked just fine. Do you have a defect number logged against your issue? I'd like to ensure that the information you posted applies to all customers or perhaps identify that this was a unique situation for you. Thanks, -David J. Easter Sr. Product Manager, Service Management Business Unit BMC Software, Inc. The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action expressed in this E-mail do not necessarily reflect those of BMC Software, Inc. My voluntary participation in this forum is not intended to convey a role as a spokesperson, liaison or public relations representative for BMC Software, Inc.
________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carpenter, Michael Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 2:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Attention people licensing 7.1 on a Linux server ** Chris, I also saw your previous post about this issue. We had the same issue you described with the "key is not valid for this server" followed by the "BMC Software hereby grants licensee..." messages except we are running Windows 2003 Server and SQL Server 2005. It turned out that when we purged our license from our old 6.3 server, the new license generated for our 7.1 server showed the "Number of Licenses" as 3. BMC Support regenerated our license key with "Number of Licenses" as 1 and it worked just fine. Michael Carpenter ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Moore, Chris Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 9:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Attention people licensing 7.1 on a Linux server ** We've had an issue open with BMC for a couple of weeks now because we could not get a license applied on our Red Hat 5 server. As you know, you have to use the User tool to apply licenses in 7.1. We'd input the information, get a warning that the key was not valid for the server, then a conformation that "BMC herby grants use of..." making it look like it was accepted. We found out it wasn't when we tried to install Incident and the def file for City was failing because of the 2000 max record limitation. BMC sent a few different keys, none of which worked. Today, a BMC rep asked if we had tried using the admin tool to apply the licenses. I told him I had tried our 6.3 admin tool and got the same error. He said he had done it with the 7.0.1 admin tool and it worked, so we downloaded it and they took. Apparently there is some sort of bug with Linux servers and the user tool licensing. If anyone is planning to upgrade to 7.1 on a Linux server, remember to keep a copy of the 7.0.1 admin tool around until there's a patch for this. Chris Moore __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ ___________________________ NOTICE: This communication and any attachments ("this message") may contain confidential information for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any unauthorized use, disclosure, viewing, copying, alteration, dissemination or distribution of, or reliance on this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, or you are not an authorized recipient, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message, delete this message and all copies from your e-mail system and destroy any printed copies. __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
