Installation manual

Installing the OpenVMS VAX Operating System

3.9 Registering Licenses

– Examples of license registration using VMSLICENSE.COM and LICENSE

• Appendix B of this manual for notes and supplemental information concerning

licenses

You can use the SYS$UPDATE:VMSLICENSE.COM procedure to register a

license for any Compaq product that supplies a Product Authorization Key (PAK).

Or, you can register licenses with the LICENSE REGISTER command. Refer to

the OpenVMS License Management Utility Manual for detailed information.

3.9.1 Types of OpenVMS VAX Licenses

The OpenVMS VAX operating system uses one of two different categories

of licenses, depending on the hardware and software conﬁguration used

and currently supported. The two categories of operating system licenses for

OpenVMS VAX are:

• VAX VMS licensing

• OpenVMS VAX licensing

The following table describes the types of licenses for each licensing category.

Compaq provides the proper license type with the purchase of the system. Not all

license types are available for every system model.

Type of License Description

VAX VMS Licenses

Traditional License Provides unlimited use to the users on a deﬁned system. VAX VMS

traditional licenses are sized to capacity according to system type.

Multi-User License Provides use according to a speciﬁed number of concurrent users. This

is an activity-based license. The Multi-User License gives you the right

to use the operating system for up to the limit of users speciﬁed in the

license. An operating system user is one who is logged in to the system

or one who is using the operating system software by means other than

primarily MicroVAX and VAX 4000 systems.

Interactive use of VAX systems licensed with the Multi-User License

can be increased by the addition of the OpenVMS VAX Individual User

License

for one or more users. For more information, refer to the

description of the OpenVMS VAX Individual User License later in this

table.

VAX VMS Workstation License Provides use for a single user on a VAX workstation. This license type

allows one direct login for the single user and then one additional login

for system management purposes only.

Additional interactive use of VAX workstations licensed with the VAX

VMS Workstation License requires the addition of an OpenVMS VAX

User License

for one or more users. For more information, refer to the

description of the OpenVMS VAX Individual User License later in this

table.

The OpenVMS VAX Individual User License is not supported by the VMS or OpenVMS VAX operating system releases

prior to VMS Version 5.5.

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