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Discussions by product => Genero BDL => Topic started by: Sally W. on April 30, 2012, 01:06:17 pm


Title: Solaris Zones problem
Post by: Sally W. on April 30, 2012, 01:06:17 pm
Hi

The help desk is looking into this, but someone here might have come across the problem which we think is some sort of Solaris zones 'gotcha' - we have no problems with standalone Solaris machines.  We are using Solaris 10 x64.

Our new servers will be zones on a Solaris SPARC machine.  They have been setup, I have installed the test zone and licenced Genero.  However I found that rebooting the userver unlicences it - this installation is not using the licence manager:

Code
  1. [testhse2][v6live][inhv6.40] > inhgo kky sc04g
  2. Program stopped at 'set_opt.4gl', line number 62.
  3. FORMS statement error number -6016.
  4. Cannot get information for license (Error 00G000).
  5. Check your environment and the license (run 'fglWrt/greWrt -a info').
  6.  
  7. [testhse2][v6live][inhv6.40] > fglWrt -a info
  8. ERROR(-6047):The device number of the license file has changed.
  9.  
  10. [testhse2][v6live][inhv6.40] > fglWrt -V
  11. fglWrt 5.13.23 build-1787
  12. License controller
  13. Target s640800
  14. Four Js*
  15. Licensed Materials - Property of Four Js
  16. (c) Copyright Four Js 1995, 2012. All Rights Reserved.
  17. * Trademark of Four Js Development Tools Europe Ltd
  18.   in the United States and elsewhere

Title: Re: Solaris Zones problem
Post by: Olivier E. on April 30, 2012, 01:38:56 pm
Hello,

During the reboot of the machine the following can change :

https://4js.com/en/support/faq/index?c=37#368


Is it the problem ?

When you wrote "my server is zones on a soalris machines" does it mean it is virtualized ?

Regards,


Olivier ECKERT - FJS SXB


Title: Re: Solaris Zones problem
Post by: Sally W. on April 30, 2012, 02:18:41 pm
Yes, the zones are virtual machines.  Have asked the people looking after Solaris to look into the suggestions in your URL.

Thanks

Title: Re: Solaris Zones problem
Post by: Reuben B. on May 01, 2012, 07:49:34 am
Hi Sally,

One of my local customers had a similar issue last year. 

If you run ifconfig in the non-global zones you will probably find it doesn't return a MAC address, wherwas if you run ifconfig in the global zone it will return a MAC address.

The solution was to install FourJs License Manager into the global zone so that it found a MAC address.

Reuben

PS Also I notice that you said you were moving from Solaris x64 to SPARC.  I'll draw your attention to our supported systems document https://4js.com/mirror/documentation.php?s=genero&f=fjs-genero-2.40.XX-SystemSupport.pdf and note what versions of Solaris are supported on SPARC vs x64


Title: Re: Solaris Zones problem
Post by: Sally W. on May 01, 2012, 08:05:44 am
Hi

This looks very useful.  Thanks, will look into it.

BTW I didn't mean to give the impression that we are moving to Sparc x64 - we've been using that successfully for a long time and moved from an ark-ware version to v10 last Nov.  We had no problems on the stand-along platform, but this licensing problem has come along with the zones.

Title: Re: Solaris Zones problem
Post by: Sally W. on May 01, 2012, 03:05:18 pm
Sadly we now get the problem when the global zone (server) is bounced.  It's OK when the virtual machines (zones) are bounced.  So we are a little closer but not there.  I'#m now wondering if the setup of the global zone is the issue.

Title: Re: Solaris Zones problem
Post by: Sally W. on November 29, 2012, 11:57:03 am
If any of you are wondering if we fixed this, we did by using the FLM on the global zone, and a possibly special release of it.