<div dir="auto">When backed by capacity based license, I never bother assigning anything else than server licences (mmchlicense server --accept -N all).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Otherwise, I don\u2019t think the fact that you can run sshfs makes it a server. Only explicitly mentioned file sharing protocols (NFS, SMB, S3 and hdfs) makes it a server (and internal roles like manager, quorum, nsd-server.. maybe more). Running GPFS on a webserver (even editable with webdav), or SMTP, or NFS server shouldn\u2019t require server license \u2014 as I understand it. But it does seem a bit unclear/borderline, and then I\u2019m happy capacity license makes this uncertainty moot.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> -jf</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">man. 24. aug. 2026 kl. 17:49 skrev Jonathan Buzzard via gpfsug-discuss <<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@gpfsug.org">gpfsug-discuss@gpfsug.org</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Some questions.<br>
<br>
First should a login node for an HPC cluster have a server or client <br>
license designation? My feeling is because you can transfer data off the <br>
node and by extension off GPFS using SSH via the likes of WinSCP or <br>
sshfs etc. then it is technically a server?<br>
<br>
Also if you can mount an external SMB drive onto the system and copy <br>
files off GPFS onto that does it counts as a server?<br>
<br>
Historically the mmchlicense explicitly mentioned SSH, but this seems to <br>
have be removed in the latest version.<br>
<br>
Also a couple of my nodes are showing as required license "server/fpo" <br>
when I run mmlslicense -L except that now fpo appears to be a <br>
discontinued license option?<br>
<br>
All that said it all feels a bit moot. Nothing is complaining about <br>
being incorrectly licensed and as our licensing is disk based there is <br>
as I understand it no cost implication of changing our login nodes to <br>
server licensing. To be honest I thought they were but apparently not.<br>
<br>
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<br>
JAB.<br>
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Jonathan A. Buzzard Tel: +44141-5483420<br>
HPC System Administrator, ARCHIE-WeSt.<br>
University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, Glasgow. G4 0NG<br>
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