On 3/1/07, Margot H. Miller <Margot.Miller at sun.com> wrote: > - hostid was never meant to be used by third parties for licensing schemes. > How prevalent is the use of this for licensing?
Seems to be the most common mechanism that I have seen. > - Besides the use of hostid for licensing, what other ways is it > being used by third parties? As a primary key in various server automation tools. > - What does hostid really mean? Is hostid a chassis identifier or just a > software installation instance identifier? The uses I have seen it for are as a chassis identifier. Because of licensing issues[1], it would be really nice to have a documented and supported way of changing the hostid. [1] Consider the hypothetical case of a SPARC 20 running Solaris 2.5.1. It is the license server for an application where the vendor is no longer in business. How do I get onto supported hardware and OS without breaking my app? (I know how to do it, but it should be a procedure that is available on Sunsolve or docs.sun.com, not just web sites that are blocked by the corporate proxy because they distribute "hacking" tools.) > - Currently there is one hostid per box. Should we allow different hostids > for every Solaris zone on the same box? Ideally this would be as simple as "set hostid=...". If not set it should use the hostid of the global zone. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
