Veritas InfoScale™ 7.4.2 Installation Guide - Linux

The vxlicinstupgrade utility enables you to perform the following tasks:

• Upgrade to another Veritas InfoScale license

• Update a keyless license to a permanent license

• Manage co-existence of multiple licenses

On executing the vxlicinstupgrade utility, the following checks are done:

• If the current license is keyless or permanent and if the user is trying to install the keyless or permanent license of the same product.

  Example: If the 7.4.2 Foundation Keyless license key is already installed on a system and the user tries to install another 7.4.2 Foundation Keyless license key, then vxlicinstupgrade utility shows an error message:

   vxlicinstupgrade WARNING: The input License key and Installed key 
  are same.

• If the current key is keyless and the newly entered license key file is a permanent license of the same product

  Example: If the 7.4.2 Foundation Keyless license key is already installed on a system and the user tries to install 7.4.2 Foundation permanent license key file, then the vxlicinstupgrade utility installs the new license at /etc/vx/licenses/lic and the 7.4.2 Foundation Keyless key is deleted.

• The vxlicinstupgrade utility in Veritas InfoScale does not support managing the text-based license keys used in versions before 7.4.

• If the current key is of a lower version and the user tries to install a higher version license key.

  Example: If 7.0 Storage license key is already installed on a system and the user tries to install 7.4.2 Storage license key file, then the vxlicinstupgrade utility installs the new license at /etc/vx/licenses/lic and the 7.0 Storage key is deleted.