Re: NET-APP-SUP-250 Alpha license question

On 8/12/24 4:45 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

On 2024-08-09 20:47:51 +0000, Richard Jordan said:
 

Can anyone confirm if the VAX or Alpha NET-APP-SUP-250 licensing VAX- or VMSCluster support is for the full cluster support, or the client one that does not let the system it is on provide a vote towards quorum?
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The info I've found so far is generic and doesn't state it clearly (shows the same working for cluster support for -250, -300, and -400).
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Looking at waking up a long dormant box (assuming it works) to act as a vote-only node in a 3 node LAVC that is likely to lose its old an cranky   shared storage.

  NAS client 150 was cluster client, while NAS client 250 was full clustering.
 Here are old VAX-era docs:
 http://odl.sysworks.biz/disk$axpdocjun043/database/nas83b/nasinstall/nas_vax_over1.html
 Here are "recent" Compaq / HP-era SPDs for NAS Client 250 on OpenVMS Alpha:
 https://www.zx.net.nz/mirror/h30266.www3.hpe.com/MasterIndex/spd/spd_00581ab0.txt
https://www.zx.net.nz/mirror/h30266.www3.hpe.com/masterindex/spd/spd_00e417cc.txt
 For comparision, here's a NAS Client 150 SPD:
 https://www.zx.net.nz/mirror/h30266.www3.hpe.com/MasterIndex/spd/spd_0135a5ec.txt
 Coincidentally (or entirely unsurprisingly?), you were in a thread about this NAS mess some twenty years ago, too:
 https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.vms/c/39GoF1ao-gs/m/1R03B9UR_yUJ
 The LMF group table stuff was the easiest way to see what included what, though the contents of the SPDs officially overrode the group table.
 Off the top, I don't remember the full filename LMF$*something-or-other for the LMF group data, but it should be easy enough to find.
   

I had found the reference to the LMF file and looked it up on the customer's current production system (which doesn't have any NAS license installed; it has discrete DECnet and UCX licenses).  The -250 license entries in that file didn't even include any cluster entries.  The actual machine it originally came with is offline on a shelf so I can't check that for now.
Thanks for replying, and for the answer!
Rich