In this post I will share how we can check the status of our Portworx licence, and if expired how we can reactivate it.
Portworx Status
Let’s start by checking the status of our Portworx licence, we can do this with the Portworx CLI (command line interface) pxctl status command.
[root@node-1-1 ~]# pxctl status
Status: PX is operational
License: Trial (expired 11d, 10h, 37m ago)
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From the above I can see my Portworx licence has expired, this raised an ‘Alarm’, which we can see using pxctl alterts show.
[root@node-1-1 ~]# pxctl alerts show
Type ID Resource Severity Count LastSeen FirstSeen Description
CLUSTER LicenseExpired ALARM 2 Dec 18 06:01:50 UTC 2020 Dec 13 05:59:50 UTC 2020 Trial license expired 5 days, 6:01 ago
Portworx Licence
So I have identified that I have an expired Portworx licence, this is easily fixed with the Portworx CLI pxctl license command.
Let’s check-out the syntax and options available to pxctl license.
[root@node-1-1 ~]# pxctl license -h
Manage licenses
Usage:
pxctl license [flags]
pxctl license [command]
Available Commands:
activate Activate license from a license server
add Add a license from a file
list List available licenses
setls Set license server
transfer Transfer license to remote PX cluster
Flags:
-h, --help help for license
Global Flags:
--ca string path to root certificate for ssl usage
--cert string path to client certificate for ssl usage
--color output with color coding
--config string config file (default is $HOME/.pxctl.yaml)
--context string context name that overrides the current auth context
-j, --json output in json
--key string path to client key for ssl usage
--raw raw CLI output for instrumentation
--ssl ssl enabled for portworx
Use "pxctl license [command] --help" for more information about a command.
License list
Using the above syntax let’s check our licence details with pxctl license list command
[root@node-1-1 ~]# pxctl license list DESCRIPTION ENABLEMENT ADDITIONAL INFO ... Product SKU Trial expired 11d, 10h, 20m ago LICENSE EXPIRES: 2020-12-12 23:59:59 +0000 UTC For information on purchase, upgrades and support, see https://docs.portworx.com/knowledgebase/support.html
From the pxctl license list command we can check the status, type and which features are included within our Portworx licence.
Licence Reactivation
We can reactivate our Portworx licence with the pxtctl license activate command and check our new expiration date using pxtctl license list.
[root@node-1-1 ~]# pxctl license activate xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx
Successfully activated license.
[root@node-1-1 ~]# pxctl license list DESCRIPTION ENABLEMENT ADDITIONAL INFO ... Product SKU PX-Enterprise extended evaluation expires in 179 days LICENSE EXPIRES: 2021-06-21 23:59:59 +0000 UTC For information on purchase, upgrades and support, see https://docs.portworx.com/knowledgebase/support.html
We can see this updated the pxctl status
[root@node-1-1 ~]# pxctl status Status: PX is operational License: PX-Enterprise extended evaluation (expires in 179 days)
The licence status change raises an ‘notification’ which we can see using pxctl alerts show.
[root@node-1-1 ~]# pxctl alerts show
Type ID Resource Severity Count LastSeen FirstSeen Description
CLUSTER ClusterLicenseUpdated px-deploy-1 NOTIFY 1 Dec 24 10:53:53 UTC 2020 Dec 24 10:53:53 UTC 2020 Cluster license activated using ActivationID xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx
Summary
In this post I have shown how we can check and manage the status of our licence using the Portworx command line interface.
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