Obtaining a License

Before installing your product, choose a SySAM license model, determine license server information, and obtain license files.

1. Decide which SySAM license model to use:
   • The unserved license model – obtains licenses directly from the license file. To use an unserved license, save the license to the same machine on which you are installing the Sybase product.
   • The served license model – uses a license server to manage the license allocation to multiple machines.
2. For the served license model, decide whether to use an existing or new license server.

   The license server and your product installation do not need to share the same machine, operating system, or architecture.

3. If you chose the served license model:
   • To install on a machine that is running a SySAM 1.0 license server, follow migration instructions in the SySAM Users Guide to migrate to the newer SySAM version.
   Note: There can be only one instance of a SySAM license server running on a given machine. To set up a SySAM 2.0 license server on a machine that is already running a SySAM 1.0 license server, you must migrate the old license server to SySAM 2. A migrated license server can serve licenses for both SySAM 1.0 and SySAM 2-enabled products.
4. Get your host IDs. When you generate licenses at the Sybase Product Download Center (SPDC), you must specify the host ID of the machine where the licenses will be deployed.
   • For unserved licenses – it is the host ID of the machine where the product will run. If you are running a product with per-CPU or per-chip licensing that supports SySAM sub-capacity and want to run the product in a virtualized environment, see “SySAM Sub-capacity Licensing” in SySAM Users Guide .
   • For served licenses – it is the host ID of the machine where the license server will run.
5. Before installing your product, get license files from SPDC at https://sybase.subscribenet.com using SPDC access information you receive from Sybase or your Sybase reseller. Log in to SPDC by using the information in your SPDC welcome e-mail message.
   Note: If you purchased your Sybase software from a Sybase reseller, you receive a Web key rather than an e-mail message.
   If you plan to use sub-capacity licensing, see SySAM Users Guide for information on how to configure using the sysamcap utility. For more information on SySAM licensing, see the SySAM Users Guide.

• SySAM License Server
  Learn about the required SySAM license server version to install.
• IPv6 Configuration
  Use the sysam configure command to choose the version of the license server based on your environment.
• SySAM Licensing Checkout
  If Replication Server was licensed using a per-processor license type in versions earlier than 15.6, the license quantity was determined at start-up.
• Replication Server 15.6 Product Editions and Licenses
  Replication Server 15.6 is released as two separate product editions—Enterprise Edition (EE) and Real-Time Loading Edition (RTLE) — that comprise different base and optional features, and which require separate licences.
• Sub-capacity Licensing
  Sybase now offers sub-capacity licensing, which lets you license Sybase products on a subset of the CPUs available on a physical machine.