LICENSE System Log Messages

This chapter describes messages with the LICENSE prefix. They are generated by processes that call routines in the liblicense library, which provide software license management functions on a routing platform.

LICENSE_CONNECT_FAILURE

System Log Message

Connection could not be set up: error-message

Description

The indicated error occured because a connection to the license-check process was not established.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

ANY

LICENSE_CONN_TO_LI_CHECK_FAILURE

System Log Message

Process could not connect to license-check in maximum-value tries; giving up

Description

The indicated process failed to connect to the license-check process after the indicated maximum tries.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

ANY

LICENSE_CONN_TO_LI_CHECK_SUCCESS

System Log Message

Connected to license-check

Description

The indicated process succesfully connected to the license-check process.

Type

Event: This message reports an event, not an error

Severity

info

Facility

ANY

LICENSE_EXPIRED

System Log Message

License for feature feature-name(feature-id) expired

Description

The time-based license for the indicated feature expired. The feature remains inactive until a new license is installed.

Type

Event: This message reports an event, not an error

Severity

alert

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

LICENSE_EXPIRED_KEY_DELETED

System Log Message

License key "filename" has expired.

Description

The indicated license-key has been removed from the file-system.

Type

Event: This message reports an event, not an error

Severity

notice

Facility

ANY

LICENSE_GRACE_PERIOD_APPROACHING

System Log Message

License grace period for feature feature-name(feature-id) will expire in time

Description

The indicated amount of time remained before the license grace period for the indicated feature would expire. If a new license was not installed within that time, the feature became inactive.

Type

Event: This message reports an event, not an error

Severity

alert

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

LICENSE_GRACE_PERIOD_EXCEEDED

System Log Message

License grace period for feature feature-name(feature-id) will expire in time (limit = maximum-value)

Description

The grace period for a scale license is about to expire. Unless the scale license is upgraded, the license will scale back to the licensed limit once the grace period expires.

Type

Event: This message reports an event, not an error

Severity

alert

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

LICENSE_GRACE_PERIOD_EXPIRED

System Log Message

License grace period for feature feature-name(feature-id) has expired

Description

The grace period for a licensable feature has expired. Strict license enforcement will remain active until a new license is installed.

Type

Event: This message reports an event, not an error

Severity

alert

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

LICENSE_LIST_MANAGEMENT

System Log Message

Error occurred for feature feature-name: error-message (system error: system-error-message)

Description

The management process (mgd) could not complete a license management command related to the indicated feature. If a system error is reported, it caused the problem.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

ANY

LICENSE_NEARING_EXPIRY

System Log Message

License for feature feature-name(feature-id) expires in time

Description

At the time this message was logged, the indicated amount of time remained before the time-based license for the indicated feature would expire. If a new license was not installed within that time, the feature became inactive.

Type

Event: This message reports an event, not an error

Severity

alert

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

LICENSE_READ_ERROR

System Log Message

recvmsg() failed:error-message

Description

The indicated process failed to read an event sent to it, for the indicated reason.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

ANY

LICENSE_REG_ERROR

System Log Message

Registration request failed: current-value

Description

The license registration request failed. A request needs to be resent to the license-check process.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

ANY

LICENSE_SCALE_CREAT_FAILURE

System Log Message

Error[error-argument]: Failed to create file filename

Description

The indicated process encountered a system error while attempting to create the scale-usage file.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

ANY

LICENSE_SCALE_OPEN_FAILURE

System Log Message

Error[error-argument]: Failed to open file filename

Description

The indicated process encountered a system error while attempting to open the scale-usage file.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

ANY

LICENSE_SCALE_READ_FAILURE

System Log Message

Error[error-argument]: Unable to read file filename

Description

The indicated process encountered a system error while attempting to read the scale-usage file.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

ANY

LICENSE_SCALE_WRITE_FAILURE

System Log Message

Error[error-argument]: Failed to write usage count to file filename

Description

The indicated process encountered a system error while attempting to write to the scale-usage file.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

critical

Facility

ANY

LICENSE_SIGNATURE_VERIFY_FAILED

System Log Message

Signature verification failed: error-message

Description

The management process (mgd) could not verify a license because the license's signature was invalid.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

ANY

LICENSE_UNKNOWN_RESPONSE_TYPE

System Log Message

unknown message type received: current-value

Description

An unknown response type was received from the license-check process.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

ANY

LICENSE_VERIFICATION_FILE_ERROR

System Log Message

License verification failed for file 'error-message': filename (system error: system-error-message)

Description

The management process (mgd) could not verify the indicated license file because of the indicated internal file-handling error.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

ANY