Obtaining a License

When you purchase SySAM 2–enabled Sybase® products, you must generate, download, and deploy SySAM product licenses.

Host ID

To obtain a license, you must know the host ID and name of the computer that will act as the license server. You can obtain these values during installation of SYSAM on the third page of the installation program where you are asked to load or copy a license file to proceed. Ethernet addresses are 12 character hex values consisting of digits 0 through 9 and characters A through F, which can be entered in any of the following formats:
  • 12AB34CD56EF

  • 12-AB-34-CD-56-EF

  • 12:AB:34:CD:56:EF

Your host id is obtained by entering the first 8 characters of the ethernet address in one of the following formats:
  • 12AB34CD

  • 12AB-34CD

Note: For some platforms, host IDs can also be entered in decimal formats, with a # prefix. Example: #1039716963

For Windows platforms, if your machine does not have a network adapter, you can use the disk serial number as an alternate host ID. Use the lmutil lmhostid -vsn command or execute DIR C: to obtain the serial number, remove the hyphen and enter it with a DISK_SERIAL_NUM= prefix. For example: DISK_SERIAL_NUM=3e2e17fd