How to proceed when a 90 day RSA Security Analytics license has expired
Issue
How to proceed when a 90 day RSA Security Analytics license has expired.Resolution
Step 1
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After or near the expiration of the duration-based license, modify the MAC address of
the Security Analytics virtual machine.
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In VMWorkstation or ESXi modify the MAC Address under hardware properties
to a manually configured one.
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Depending on setup it may choose MAC of another device (eth1 instead of eth0)
so will have to update /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to make sure it
has proper DEVICE= line.
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If a physical machine is used for the Security Analytics server then the additional
steps below must be followed:
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The physical MAC address does not need to be changed on the S4 appliance
(aka Dell). The Flexera LLS server on the SA server does not function with
emX interfaces, only ethX interfaces. To trick Flexera into thinking the
interface is ethX the kickstart script during installation configures an
Ethernet bridge control to logically map eth9 to em3. The actual physical
interface used for SA is em1, which does not need to be modified.
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The steps you need to do to modify the logical MAC address mapping so the
Flexera software thinks the MAC address has changed. Do not map this to the
active network interface (default is em1) or will lose connectivity.
i. Issue the following command: brctl show
Should see similar to the following:
Bridge name bridge id STP enable interfaces
eth9 8000.90b11c1d61f9 no em3
ii. Issue the following command: brctl delif eth9 em3
iii. Issue the following command: brctl addif eth9 em2
iv. Issue the following command: brctl show
1. should now see 'enabled interfaces' = em2
v. Issue the following command: service fneserver stop
vi. Issue the following command: service fneserver start
1. Should now see a new License Server ID, which should now
correspond to MAC address of em2 instead of em3.
vii. Make sure to update /etc/init.d/fneserver to hard-code this during
restarts
1. Use vi to replace (r) em2 on line reading ?/usr/sbin/brctl addif
eth9 em3?
2. Save file (wq!)
- Login to download central (DLC) and create a new server with the new server id (MAC address).
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In DLC, map add-ons to match the features that were previously associated to the old
server. Remember to hit ?download capability response? to get add-ons to release from
Step 2
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Login to SA server to complete a reset of the server.
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If version 10.1, navigate to Administration > System > Licensing and click Reset.
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If earlier version, run these commands from the console
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service fneserver stop
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echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
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export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/fneserver/lib
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echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
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/opt/fneserver/bin/fneserver reset
After running the fneserver reset, delete the files under /var/lib/fneserver that begin with ra and restart the fneserver -
rm /var/lib/fneserver/ra*
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service fneserver status
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service fneserver start
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Step 3
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Reset the devices to utilize the new SA entitlements.
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In SA navigate to Administration > Devices, select the device, cand navigate to View > Explore > sys > license
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Right-click on license and select Properties.
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Choose delAll from the pull down menu and select Send.
Step 4
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Login to SA server and navigate to Administration > System > Licensing and hit Refresh if customer system has direct access to DLC.
Otherwise follow the offline process by ?downloading the capability response? in DLC after creating the server and then
uploading the response.bin file (after sneaker netting it to network SA is on) via the SA
Administration > System > Licensing > Offline > Upload Offline Response interface.
Step 5
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Select each device (Brkr/Conc/Dec) and reactivate from the Administration > Devices > Activate.
Remember if device shows as still licensed (aka Licensed=yes) after doing delAll then service may not have restarted so
do a ?restart services? in Administration > Devices.
If this has not been done then will get a failed response when trying to activate
the device. Of course this does not apply to services that are not currently affected by
licensing ? RE, IPDB Extractor, and Log Collector.
Internal Comments
UserName:shurtj8/26/2014 6:00:47 PM - Updated Article
Updated article and made changes to abide by Primus best practices.
UserName:salmeida
4/19/2024 11:33:47 PM - to be archive
Old product no longer apply to the current version and products. To be archive
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