Use the lmborrow option to check out licenses from the network license server, if you will be disconnected from the network for extended period of time.
Database Expert periodically executes a “heartbeat” on the network license server to update license status. If the machine running Database Expert is disconnected from the network, these heartbeats fail and eventually the software becomes unavailable. Borrowing a license before disconnecting from the network suspends the heartbeat checks and provides full use of the software while disconnected.
Specify the end time when you perform the borrow operation. At the end of the lease, you can obtain a new lease by connecting back to the network. You can also return a license earlier than the lease end time.
You cannot borrow a license when you are use local license
files.
Borrowing a license using lmborrow
Before disconnecting from the network, shut down Database Expert.
Go to %SYBASE%\SYSAM-2_0\bin.
In a Command Prompt window, enter:
lmutil lmborrow SYBASE enddate [ time ]
where endate [time] is
the desired borrow end date.
Run lmborrow from the same machine
on which licenses are being borrowed, and from the same user that
starts Database Expert.
For example, the following command sets the end date at 1 p.m. on August 20th, 2005:
lmutil lmborrow SYBASE 20-aug-2005 13:00
The maximum borrow time is 30 days. Your license administrator can reduce the maximum borrow time following the instructions in “Returning a borrowed license early”.
Start Database Expert. The checked out license is borrowed.
Disconnect from the network.
Displaying status on a borrowed license
In a Command Prompt window, go to %SYBASE%\SYSAM-2_0\bin.
Enter:
lmutil lmborrow -status
Returning a borrowed license early
Connect to the network.
Shut down Database Expert.
In a Command Prompt window, go to %SYBASE%\SYSAM-2_0\bin.
Return each borrowed license by entering:
lmutil lmborrow -return [-c licfile] [-d display_name] feature
For example, the following command returns the ASE_SDBE license:
lmutil lmborrow -return -c %SYBASE%\SYSAM-2_0\licenses -d myhost ASE_SDBE
Renewing a borrowed license
Connect to the network.
Shut down Database Expert.
Return the currently borrowed license if the lease has not expired.
Execute the steps to borrow licenses with a new lease end date.
See “License Borrowing with BORROW” in Chapter 8, “Mobile Licensing,” in the FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide, and Chapter 7, “License Administration Tools,” for more details.
