Obtaining a License

Before installing your product, choose a SySAM license model, determine the license server information, and obtain license files.

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

If you purchased your product from Sybase or an authorized Sybase reseller, go to the secure Sybase Product Download Center (SPDC) at https://sybase.subscribenet.com and log in to generate license keys. The license generation process may vary slightly, depending on whether you ordered directly from Sybase or from a Sybase reseller
If you ordered your product under an SAP® contract and were directed to download from SAP Service Marketplace (SMP), you can use SMP at http://service.sap.com/licensekeys to generate license keys for Sybase products that use SySAM 2-based licenses.

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 choose the served license model:
- Decide whether to use an existing or new license server.
  The license server and your product installation do not need to share the same machine, operating system, or architecture.
- 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, 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) or SAP Service Marketplace (SMP), 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.
- Served licenses – the host ID of the machine where the license server will run.
To use an existing license server, you must know the server host name and port number.
If Sybase assigns any port numbers to you for use with Adaptive Server, exclude these numbers from any port-scanning software you run. Adaptive Server attempts to service each scan as a login attempt, which may lead to poor performance.
Before installing your product, get license files from SPDC or from SMP using the access information you receive from Sybase or your Sybase reseller.

Log in to SPDC or SMP by using the information in your 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.