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    I have a CCS cluster of a few hundred nodes that I am wanting to automate the online activation process. What tools or scripts will do this? I have tried using the following VB script, & it would fail with the code also shown below. Really curious what other options or ideas are floating around in the HPC community.



    strComputer = "."

    Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & _

    "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

    Set colWindowsProducts = objWMIService.ExecQuery _

    ("SELECT * FROM Win32_WindowsProductActivation")

     

    For Each obj In colWindowsProducts

      Wscript.Echo "Product ID          : " & obj.ProductID

      WScript.Echo "ActivationRequired: " & CBool(obj.ActivationRequired)

      ret=obj.ActivateOnline()

    Next




    Error Code: 80041016
    Line: 10
    Char: 3
    Source: SWbemObjectEx
    • Moved by Josh Barnard Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:07 PM Moving this to the Deployment/Management forums since it's not about the scheduler.
    Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:41 PM

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    If you are using a VL key with Windows Server 2003, you shouldn't need to activate.  Are you getting a message saying that you need to activate?

    Thanks,
    Josh
    -Josh
    • Proposed as answer by Josh Barnard Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:35 PM
    • Marked as answer by Don Pattee Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:51 PM
    Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:35 PM

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    Just want to confirm it's Compute Cluster 2003, right? Not our lateast Windows HPC Server 2008?

     

    Thanks,

    Christina

    Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:07 AM
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    That is correct, the 2003 version of the product.
    Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:54 PM
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    Let me ask this way, what is the Microsoft solution with respect to scalability to this kind of situation? Do I need to RDP to each compute node, & manuallly go through the activation process? Maybe for up to 10 nodes, this would not be a huge deal, but I have 700 nodes that I need to activate product on.

    Here's another wrinkle, this cluster is isolated from the internet. I have the ablity to get internet connectivity to it, but for the sake of reference, I am curious if an internet connection will be a requirement for activation. I can see where there would be situations where an organization would want their cluster totally isolated, headnode & all.

    Surely there is workaround for this manual activation situation. Any suggestions, thoughts, ideas, brainstorms, or additional research material links, I'd be very grateful for. My "Command Line Commando" peers are beginning to make fun of me & the product line I chose. Sad
    Thursday, May 22, 2008 2:42 PM
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    Still hoping to get an answer on this one.
    Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:28 PM
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    can you tell me what kind of lisc you are workign with?

    volume or retail?

    thanks

    -parmita

    Monday, June 23, 2008 5:06 PM
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    Volume Licensing.
    Monday, June 23, 2008 5:13 PM
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    If you are using a VL key with Windows Server 2003, you shouldn't need to activate.  Are you getting a message saying that you need to activate?

    Thanks,
    Josh
    -Josh
    • Proposed as answer by Josh Barnard Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:35 PM
    • Marked as answer by Don Pattee Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:51 PM
    Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:35 PM