I see that Tim Mackey has meanwhile answered on the Q&A page you link to below.
I understand now that you have indeed applied an actual XenServer hotfix package to an XCP server. Unfortunately, XenServer hotfixes are not usually compatible with XCP (it is definitely not tested this way).
What this means for licensing, is that the hotfix you have installed must have contained a new xapi binary with the licensing checks enabled (as in XenServer).
I think that the options are:
1.
Tim to give you a 12-month “XenServer Free Edition” license file. This may be the easiest way forward in the short term.
2.
Reinstall the original xapi RPM package from XCP 1.6, which you should be able to find on the XCP install ISO. This would remove the licensing checks again, but would also undo
any xapi fixes that were present in your hotfix, and would move you even further away from a tested system…
3.
Upgrade to XenServer 6.2, which is as free as XCP, and to which you can safely apply further hotfixes from Citrix.
Cheers,
Rob
From: Кокшаров
Павел Сергеевич [mailto:Koksharov.P@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: 03 July 2014 1:04 PM
To: Rob Hoes
Subject: RE: LICENSE_EXPIRES_SOON
Here
http://www.xenproject.org/questions-and-answers/please-help-xcp-1-6-with-citrix-hotfixes-resulted-in-license-problem-urgent.html , are the same server. "Alexander" my former colleague, but lost contact with him. I don `t know how he solved the problem.
With servers did not do anything, do not put hot fixes. They both began to send e-mail messages on the end of the license. How to be in this situation? Thanks for the help!
Hello,
When a license expires in XenServer, any running VMs will continue to run, they won’t lock up.
I can’t remember from the top of my head what the situation was for XCP 1.6, but it may be that nothing at all would happen when the “license” expires, because the code to do that was switched off. I do remember
that we had made a mistake in this area in the first release, and then released an update.
I guess it depends on what exactly you have installed: what exactly is the hotfix that you have got?
Cheers,
Rob
Hello gentlemen.
I've got a serious problem. I'm desperate to say more precisely. My hosts are running XCP 1.6.After upgrade from 1.1 some of my VMs still running MS Server 2003 started to lock up in the state of so called gray screen of death.
After a bit of googling i discovered that it's a bug and Citrix released hotfixes against this disease. So i installed them. Everything went fine until recently, when everyday my hosts started to send emails stating that license is going to expire. Here's
an example:
Field Value
----- -----
Name: LICENSE_EXPIRES_SOON
Priority: 10
Class: Host
Object UUID: 40aa0b58-d489-4009-a55a-95c5b151c0ce
Timestamp: 20140703T00:02:01Z
Message UUID: 58fcfb3d-e46c-18d3-700d-4c1080f4d13e
Pool name: zen
Body: Your license will expire in 27
days
I suppose it's because of an updated xapi from Citrix. My question is - what can i do with this, because i suppose when the counter reaches zero my servers could just lock up as with ordinary Xenserver. And what's worse, i'm not
even in the office to physically reach the servers, have network access though.
Please, i'd appreciate any help.
