If Replication Server cannot obtain a suitable license, the product does not run. A license is considered unavailable if it cannot be checked out, or if the license cannot be issued during a grace period. Licenses can be unavailable during start-up or heartbeat runtime.
When SySAM detects a checkout failure, the event is logged in the Replication Server error log, which you can use to diagnose any unexpected licensing failures. After the initial checkout failure, periodic events are logged during a grace period.
If a suitable license cannot be found when requested, Replication Server evaluates if a license can be issued during a grace period. There are three types of grace periods:
Install time – when you configure a new Replication Server (or upgrade an earlier version to 15.0), you have 30 days to activate and configure the appropriate license.
Runtime – a runtime grace period is evaluated when one of these conditions occurs:
A license was not checked out at start-up, but there is a history of successfully using the requested license on this machine.
A license that was successfully checked out at start-up becomes unavailable at a later time.
If Replication Server encounters either situation, it enters into a 30-day runtime grace period. If the problem is not resolved within 30 days, Replication Server stops running; however, the user can save any work and exit. If the problem that causes the license to be unavailable is fixed during the runtime grace period, Replication Server automatically picks up the license and no longer operates in the grace period.
Support renewal time – this grace period allows you enough time to update the license after renewing support. The support grace period for Replication Server is one year.
This means that you can install and use EBFs and updates that are released up to one year past the end-of-support date recorded in the license.
If Replication Server cannot obtain a license, SySAM evaluates whether the license can be issued under a grace period. The grace periods evaluated are described in “License availability and grace periods”.
