how do I know if a RedHat server is licensed?

yanik · 04-24-2007, 10:08 AM

Hi everyone,

I have make a report about the status of the licenses on about 20-25 redhat servers. I have access to them thru ssh. Where do I find the license information on a redhat server?

Thank you very much

Yanik

MensaWater · 04-24-2007, 10:19 AM

The way RedHat does it is to give you "entitlements". You can look at their site www.redhat.com looking for "RedHat Network" information.

So far as I know there is no actual "license" file installed on the individual servers.

Also note there is a change: Prior to RHEL up to RedHat 9 you could use "RedHat" for commercial or non-commercial purposes so didn't require a license. Starting after that with RedHat Enterprise they separated out so you should have a license for RedHat Enterprise but can use Fedora Core without a license. Fedora Core serves as a testing ground for what ends up in RedHat Enterprise. With RedHat enterprise (RHEL) and Fedora Core (FC) they started renumbering the distributions at 1 again. RHEL is now up to RHEL 5 and FC is up to 6 (I think FC 7 beta may be out).