[gpfsug-discuss] License designation

[Jonathan Buzzard]

Some questions.

First should a login node for an HPC cluster have a server or client 
license designation? My feeling is because you can transfer data off the 
node and by extension off GPFS using SSH via the likes of WinSCP or 
sshfs etc. then it is technically a server?

Also if you can mount an external SMB drive onto the system and copy 
files off GPFS onto that does it counts as a server?

Historically the mmchlicense explicitly mentioned SSH, but this seems to 
have be removed in the latest version.

Also a couple of my nodes are showing as required license "server/fpo" 
when I run mmlslicense -L except that now fpo appears to be a 
discontinued license option?

All that said it all feels a bit moot. Nothing is complaining about 
being incorrectly licensed and as our licensing is disk based there is 
as I understand it no cost implication of changing our login nodes to 
server licensing. To be honest I thought they were but apparently not.



JAB.

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