[cisco-voip]Unity Question (ANSWER)

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

That's interesting, my colleage actually posted a reply to that about us swapping our hardware for an analog integration and we had no problems we simply installed the harddrives into the new server and up we were. Not error messages nothing!
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Erick Bergquist 
  To: erickbe at yahoo.com ; Lelio Fulgenzi ; Burton, Jason ; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 8:29 AM
  Subject: Re: [cisco-voip]Unity Question (ANSWER)


  I posted the original question on the unified
  messaging forum (link below) and got a reply that the
  grace period is 4 hours. 

  http://forum.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/NetProf?page=netprof&forum=IP%20Communications%20and%20Video&topic=Unified%20Communications&CommCmd=MB%3Fcmd%3Ddisplay_location%26location%3D.1dd90e99

  --- Erick Bergquist <erickbe at yahoo.com> wrote:

  > 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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