Correct Licensing Issue for SAN_EXTN_OVER_IP_IPS4

[brobson]

Greetings,

I have two MDS switches that should have identical licensing/features installed.  One of the switches is continuously logging 'license file missing' for SAN_EXTN_OVER_IP_IPS4.  We are not using this feature.  What do I need to do to clear up the log files?  Below is a comparison of the 'show license usage' for each switch.

Thnx,

b

fc1# sh lic usa
Feature                      Ins  Lic   Status Expiry Date Comments
                                 Count
---------------------------------------------------------------------
IOA_184                       No    0   Unused             -
XRC_ACCL                      No    -   Unused             -
IOA_SSN16                     No    0   Unused             -
DMM_184_PKG                   No    0   Unused             -
FM_SERVER_PKG                 Yes   -   Unused never       -
MAINFRAME_PKG                 No    -   Unused             -
ENTERPRISE_PKG                Yes   -   Unused never       -
DMM_FOR_SSM_PKG               No    0   Unused             -
SAN_EXTN_OVER_IP              No    0   Unused             -
SME_FOR_SSN16_PKG             No    0   Unused             -
PORT_ACTIVATION_PKG           No    0   Unused             -
SME_FOR_IPS_184_PKG           No    0   Unused             -
STORAGE_SERVICES_184          No    0   Unused             -
SAN_EXTN_OVER_IP_18_4         Yes   1   In use never       -
SAN_EXTN_OVER_IP_IPS2         No    0   Unused             -
SAN_EXTN_OVER_IP_IPS4         No    0   Unused             -
SAN_EXTN_OVER_IP_SSN16        No    0   Unused             -
STORAGE_SERVICES_SSN16        No    0   Unused             -
10G_PORT_ACTIVATION_PKG       No    0   Unused             -
STORAGE_SERVICES_ENABLER_PKG  No    0   Unused             -

fc2# sh lic usa
Feature                      Ins  Lic   Status Expiry Date Comments
                                 Count
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IOA_184                       No    0   Unused             -
XRC_ACCL                      No    -   Unused             -
IOA_SSN16                     No    0   Unused             -
DMM_184_PKG                   No    0   Unused             -
FM_SERVER_PKG                 Yes   -   In use never       -
MAINFRAME_PKG                 No    -   Unused             -
ENTERPRISE_PKG                Yes   -   Unused never       -
DMM_FOR_SSM_PKG               No    0   Unused             -
SAN_EXTN_OVER_IP              No    0   Unused             -
SME_FOR_SSN16_PKG             No    0   Unused             -
PORT_ACTIVATION_PKG           No    0   Unused             -
SME_FOR_IPS_184_PKG           No    0   Unused             -
STORAGE_SERVICES_184          No    0   Unused             -
SAN_EXTN_OVER_IP_18_4         Yes   1   In use never       -
SAN_EXTN_OVER_IP_IPS2         No    0   Unused             -
SAN_EXTN_OVER_IP_IPS4         Yes   1   Unused never       1 license(s) missing
SAN_EXTN_OVER_IP_SSN16        No    0   Unused             -
STORAGE_SERVICES_SSN16        No    0   Unused             -
10G_PORT_ACTIVATION_PKG       No    0   Unused             -
STORAGE_SERVICES_ENABLER_PKG  No    0   Unused             -

[Michael Brown]

The IPS 4 module was short lived and has been end of support for a while.

Issue this command to see if the MDS will report what feature is triggering the license to be 'in use'.

show license usage SAN_EXTN_OVER_IP_IPS4

This command should show what configuration commands are generating this message.  The file missing is not something to worry about.  I mean it is annoying, but will not harm the switch operation.

Do you know if you even have an IPS 4 module installed?  'show module' would indicate if you do.

This looks to be a remnant of using the IPS4 module for an FCIP connection sometime back.

The other option is change the logging level for the license manager.  The default is level 6 (informational) which means levels 6 down to 1 are all logged. You change the logging level from 6 to a lower number to stop them from showing up.  I believe that the missing file is a level 3, so you could set the logging level for licmgr messages to 2 (which would be 2,1 and 0 inclusive).  This would not the messages...just stop them from being recorded in the log.

HTH

Mike