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License entitlement risk after motherboard replacement

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Applies to

  • AFF Systems
  • FAS Systems
  • ONTAP 9
  • Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 and Later

Issue

The controller reports a license entitlement risk  Acquire a node-locked license which points to the surviving node or the licenses show as unlicensed after motherboard replacement in System Manager.
 
Example

From the logs we can see that the node netapp-cluster-01  has been replaced, but the system reports a missing license of node netapp-cluster-02.

netapp-cluster::> system license show-status
Status    License              Scope     Detailed Status
--------- -------------------  --------- ----------------------
partially-installed
          NFS                  node      License missing on: netapp-cluster-02.
          CIFS                 node      License missing on: netapp-cluster-02.
          iSCSI                node      License missing on: netapp-cluster-02.
          FCP                  node      License missing on: netapp-cluster-02.
          SnapRestore          node      License missing on: netapp-cluster-02.
          SnapMirror           node      License missing on: netapp-cluster-02.
          FlexClone            node      License missing on: netapp-cluster-02.
          SnapVault            node      License missing on: netapp-cluster-02.
          SnapManagerSuite     node      License missing on: netapp-cluster-02.

netapp-cluster::> system license entitlement-risk show
Package             Entitlement Risk Corrective Action
------------------- ---------------- -----------------------------------
NFS                 unlicensed       None
           Nodes Without a Node-Locked License
           -------------------------------------------------------------
           netapp-cluster-02                    1-81-0000000000000004073806283

 

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