Difference between revisions of "Seon-ID"

Revision as of 17:56, 13 August 2008

The so-called "Seon-ID" is an installation and hardware dependant hexadecimal hash of your system running Seon. Seon needs a valid license which is based on this ID. In order to receive a license, the Seon-ID is the basis for this encrypted file.

retrieving Seon-ID via web interface

In the administrative web interface, click in the left menu on "Tools". The Seon-ID will be displayed in the main screen right under the "backup" options:

If the license file is writable by the web server user, an upload of a valid license is possible via the "choose file" and "upload license" buttons. A pre-check of validity is done before exchanging the license file.

retrieving Seon-ID via command line

The program "seonlic" is used for commandline interaction.

constantly changing Seon-ID

If your Seon-ID is changing sometimes and you're really sure you didn't change the machine configuration, you should check that the name resolving works constantly. This can be done by editing the file

/etc/nsswitch.conf

on most Unix systems and the file

/etc/netsvc.conf

on AIX systems.

In order to obtain the same information every time, you should configure the first host name resolving method as "local" and add a static IP address and hostname for your machine to "/etc/hosts". This should fix your problem.

An example for a working entry in the file

/etc/nsswitch.conf

is:

hosts:          files dns

A working AIX configuration file

 /etc/netsvc.conf

is:

hosts = local, bind

In both cases, the local file "/etc/hosts" is asked first, then the configured DNS server. This also speeds up the name resolving mechanism.