[cisco-voip]Unity Question

[Erick Bergquist]

The unity licensing docs state that the server has to
have a license file that matches the servers MAC
address (primary, virtual, etc). 

I couldn't find a doc that states it continues to work
with a license that doesn't match. But I guess it may
depend on how you're restoring and how the license
gets there maybe. Maybe if you're restoring from
backup, the files are already there and license is not
being added new. Maybe they let unity run as long as
there is a license for a bit in case of disasters
where someone had to restore to another server so they
weren't totally out while the new license was coming.
You could try posting something on the cisco unified
messaging forum , there are a few cisco unity folks
that reply out there frequently.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps2237/products_white_paper09186a008019c743.shtml

License Files and MAC Addresses

Each license file (except the default license file) is
registered to the MAC address (physical address) of
the network interface card (NIC) on the Cisco Unity
server. The license file for one computer cannot be
used on a second computer (for example, because you
want to replace the Cisco Unity server). You must
obtain a replacement license file registered to the
MAC address on the second computer. See the "Replacing
License Files When Replacing a Cisco Unity Server"
section. 

--- Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

> I wouldn't mind confirmation of this. When we were
> researching backup options we decided to buy
> hardware to backup our two Unity servers (7855s) and
> were told we could simply plug in the harddrives and
> it would work. We tested this and it did, but I
> don't think we did any sort of time trial.
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Erick Bergquist 
>   To: Burton, Jason ; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
>   Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 12:29 AM
>   Subject: Re: [cisco-voip]Unity Question
> 
> 
> 
>   What version of Unity? Unity 4.x has license tied
> to
>   MAC file. Maybe the other machine was not plugged
> in
>   and at one time someone programmed the NIC to have
>   same MAC as other machine perhaps? 
> 
>   I think unity will run for a few hours also (or
>   perhaps days) before it stops due to licensing
> issues.
> 
>   --- "Burton, Jason" <Jason.Burton at CoreBTS.com>
> wrote:
> 
>   > Recently the our Unity server had a hardware
>   > failure, long story short.
>   > We had a machine sitting in the rack that we
>   > restored Unity onto, its
>   > working fine.  Now the question is why is it
> running
>   > alright?  Isn't the
>   > license file based on the MAC of the NIC?  We
> have
>   > request in to Cisco
>   > for a new license file, but I'm curious as to
> why it
>   > is working now.



		
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