Before installing your product, choose a SySAM license model, determine license server information, and obtain license files.
Choose a SySAM license model.
License Model
Description
Unserved license model
Licenses are obtained directly from the license file. If you are using an unserved
license, save the license file to the machine on which
you install the product.
Served license model
A license
server manages the allocation of licenses among multiple machines.
For the served license model, decide whether to use an existing or new license server.
The license server and your product installation need not share the same machine, operating system, or architecture.
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 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.
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 – 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 the SySAM Users Guide .
For served licenses – the host ID
of the machine where the license server will run.
Before installing your product, get license files from SPDC at 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 the SySAM Users Guide for information on how to configure using the sysamcap utility.
Use sysadmin lmconfig to configure and show license management-related information in Replication Server. See Replication Server Reference Manual > Replication Server Commands > sysadmin lmconfig.
SySAM License Server
Make sure that you have installed the required SySAM license server version. Replication Server 15.5 and later include FLEXnet Publisher license server manager, which is platform-specific.
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 15.7, the license quantity was determined at start-up.
Product Editions and License Types
As of version 15.5, Replication Server 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 offers sub-capacity licensing, which lets you license Sybase products on a subset of the CPUs available on a physical machine.