Decommissioned clients

[warlock0199]

Good day all.

We have decommissioned a few servers. How do I release the networker licenses? I don't want to delete the indexes, because there could be a restore needed later on.
Any advice would be welcome..

THX

 

[605]

I think you have to delete the CFIs as NW will check this.

Now, as NW only needs licenses for backups, you may try the following:
- Make sure to have a valid backup of your indexes
- Delete the Client resources and the file index
- Restart NW
- Verify whether the license has been released (nsrlic -v)
- Recreate the client
- Recover the CFI for this client (nsrck -L7 client_name)
- Verify whether the license still is released (nsrlic -v)

Please inform us about the result.

 

[warlock0199]

Thanx for the reply.

I have tried what you have suggested. I far as I understand it, this should work. But the problem is that when you recreate the client, I get an error message: "<CLIENT NAME> should be a valid host name". (The server that was decommissioned has already been removed from the network.)

Is there a way to get past this?

 

[kcongdon]

Try adding the client's hostname and IP address to a HOSTS or /etc/hosts file. I think it might even work if you add a host name and a fake IP address (just don't use an IP address that's valid for another hostname).

We use an /etc/hosts file on our Legato server running Solaris 8.

 

[605]

Correct - NW only checks whether it can resolve the name. So a fake entry in the hosts file will do the job.