License sharing between AIX and Windows?

[solid7]

I have an HD2 configuration that I want to use concurrent offline licensing between AIX and Windows. My reseller says he does not THINK that this is possible.

Can anyone tell me if reserveable licenses can be checked out and shared between operating systems?

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[ryengnut]

Hey solid7,

I think they might be right, I just tried the offline extract function on one of our HPUX machine and the function is not available in the Nodelock Key Manager.

ryengnut

 

[PeterGuy]

Are you looking the offline onto the AIX box? (they tend to be big & heavy) this I don't think is possible. However, if you are just looking to use the licence concurrently on the AIX and off line on to windows this is perfectly feasable.

It would appear that the offline licencing model is intended for laptop & the like as it would appear to only work on Win32 and not Win64, AIX, AIX64, SUN, HPUX, IRIX.

We tried to use an Win32 offlined on Win64 (on the same box, same target ID) and it was having none of it, the nodelock key manager would not even acknoledge that there was anything in the nodelock file.

 

[solid7]

Are you looking the offline onto the AIX box? (they tend to be big & heavy)

It doesn't really matter how big or heavy - the machines sit side by side, and I have no intention of going mobile. The situation is, I have one license of Catia V5, and one license of Catia V4. I want to boot up Catia V5 on AIX, for some large assembly work that I'm doing.

Note: the AIX machine is not as heavy as my Windows box!

However, if you are just looking to use the licence concurrently on the AIX and off line on to windows this is perfectly feasable.

My license is set up as a concurrent license, on Windows. If I ask for it to be made to run on AIX, that poses a problem for my reseller, because then they've issued me 2 working licenses, and I've only paid for one. I don't think that I can get them to go for that...

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[PeterGuy]

The IBM key centers will allow licenses to be transfered form one TargetID to another regardless of platform type or license model (nodelocked or concurrent). However, you usually have to provide some justification for the transfer it is also your responsibility (to remain in the terms of the licence agreement) to remove the old & destroy the old key. Transfer the license more than is normal is likley to prompt a visit from the IBM Police. But from the sounds of it none of the above is necessary.

As far as I understand what you want to do is use your Catia *V5 licence on your AIX box that sits next to it. Your V5 licence is currently installed on the windows box as a concurrent licence using LUM. I assume that both boxes sit on the same network.

Assumming that your LUM server on the windows box is set up correctly you should install the AIX version of LUM on your AIX box and configure it as a client of the server on the windows box. This will allow you to use the V5 licence on the AIX box as a concurrent licence. There is no need to employ offline licencing or to transfer the key to the AIX box, you of course will not be able to use the V5 licence on the windows box whilst it is in use on the AIX box.

You would only need to use offline licensing if you were going to try and use a licence that you normally used concurrently on a machine that was going to be disconnected from the network. As we have already dicussed the availability of the of the offline licensing model is restricted to the Win32 plaform.

A transfer would only be required (examples not an exhaustive list)
* if the hardware had a problem that meant it could not be used productivly
* the hardware had been replaced.
* You were consolidaing a number of nodelock licenses on to a single LUM server