Generating Licenses

Before you generate licenses, gather the necessary information and complete these tasks.

Information Needed Before License Generation

Required Information or Action

License Model

Description

Served

Unserved

License deployment model

X

X

Decide whether to use a served or unserved license deployment model.

Typically, this is a company-wide decision that is made only once. Therefore, this is one of the most important things to determine before license generation.

Product machine host ID

X

Determine the host ID of the machine, or machine partition where the product will run.

License server – download and install

X

Download and install the SySAM license server before you generate the product’s licenses, and before you install the product.

License server host ID

X

Determine the host ID of the machine where the license server will run.

License server host name

X

Determine the host name of the machine where the license server will run.

License server TCP/IP port numbers

X

Determine the two port numbers on which the license server will listen for license requests.