NLS responding with D021

ShineOn,

'Have you got license certificates defined for the metered application'

Yes, of course.

'and verified they are at a level equal to or higher than the objects (user & app) with the search limit set appropriately?'

Yes.  A breakdown:

Tree
  |
  +--.O=ACME
             |
             +--.OU=Office
                      |
                      +--.CN=JDOE
                      |
                      +--.OU=Applications
                      |            |
                      |            +--.CN=NAL-deployed icon
                      |            |
                      |            +--.CN=License Container
                      |                           |
                      |                           +--License Certificate
                      |
                      +--.OU=Workstations
                                    |
                                    +--.CN=My Workstation

The user is within the Office OU, the application is in the Application OU within the Office OU.  The NLS object is within the same Application OU.

One thing I have noticed is when I ran a Generate License Report - I noticed some metered licenses within the Application OU were at 100% usage.  When I check the License Container object, it said a certificate was in use, but the Units in Use page was empty.  When I checked the License Certificate it contained, it claimed NO licenses were in use.  It's almost like the License Container cannot communicate with the License Certificate...

The NLS_LSP_Server is configured to Search to the root of the local partition - if there are any other search limit parameters - I'd love to know about them.
           

let me try putting a License above the Applications OU into the parent Office OU and see what happens.

unreal.  ShineOn that worked.

what I don't get is that with NetWare 4.2 it worked as described above, with the license containers in the Applications OU within the Office OU.

we noticed it broke when we went to NetWare 5.1 - they must have changed something between Novell Licensing Services and NetWare Licensing Services that shipped with NetWare 5.1.

So the correct answer is:

'If so, it could be that niether the user or workstation can find the license container, because license searches only go up the tree, not down.'