This section describes the required licensing information that you must know before you install any of the components of Replication Agent.
Sybase Software Asset Management 2 (SySAM) is a licensing mechanism that:
Allows System Administrators to monitor their site’s use of Sybase products and optional features
Records the Sybase software being used and licensed
Before you install Replication Agent, you must decide whether to configure an unserved license or a network license server. This information will be requested during installation. For detailed instructions, see the Sybase Software Asset Management 2 Users Guide.SySAM verifies that a valid license exists for one of the following Sybase Replication Agents:
Replication Agent for Oracle
Replication Agent for Microsoft SQL Server
Replication Agent for IBM DB2 UDB
The basic components of SySAM are:
A license file
The SySAM software, which consists of SySAM Utilities and SySAM Server
SySAM utilities are installed whenever you install Replication Agent. SySAM Server, however, is automatically installed with Replication Agent only if:
The current machine does not contain a running SySAM server, and
You installed Replication Agent with a valid served license and this served license references the installation machine as the SySAM server.
For all information about SySAM, see the Sybase Software Asset Management 2 Users Guide.
