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