If the license can be issued during the grace period, the issue is logged and Database Expert starts. The log entry looks similar to this:
00:00000:00000:2005/07/05 15:46:08.84 kernel Sybase Licensing: Using licenses from: /opt/sybase/ SYSAM-2_0/licenses 00:00000:00000:2005/07/05 15:46:08.91 kernel Sybase Licensing: Checked out graced license for 1 <license_name> (2005.0703) will expire Tue Jul 5 15:47:02 2005. 00:00000:00000:2005/07/05 15:46:08.91 kernel Sybase Licensing: Cannot find license file
Database Expert continues to operate normally until the issue causing the license failure is fixed, or until the grace period expires. The error message indicates the date and time the grace period is scheduled to end. The error log entry is repeated with increasing frequency while Database Expert operates in the grace period until you fix the issue causing the license failure. When the issue is fixed, Database Expert automatically acquires the license and moves from grace period mode into normal mode. If Database Expert cannot obtain the license before the grace period expires, Database Expert stops running.
If you obtain a Database Expert license from a network
license server, Database Expert periodically executes a “heartbeat” with
the network license server. A successfully acquired license could
be invalidated during the heartbeat; for example, the acquired had
an expiration date or the network license server was restarted and
other Database Expert instances acquired all available licenses
before this instance could reacquire a license. If this happens, Database Expert
enters a grace period. This information is written in the error log,
and is similar to the information written to the error log when
you initially start the product.
Select Help | About in Database Expert to see the current license status.
