Before you install Adaptive Server, you should:
Decide the SySAM license model you will use. The choices are:
The unserved license model – gets licenses directly from the license file. If you are using an unserved license, you should simply save the license to the machine on which you have installed Adaptive Server.
The served license model – uses a license server to manage the allocation of your licenses to multiple machines. See the following steps for more information.
For information about served and unserved licenses, and which model is best suited for your environment, see Chapter 2, “Choosing a License Model” in the Sybase Software Asset Management User’s Guide.
If you plan to use a served license, you need a license server. Decide whether it will be an existing license server or a new license server. The license server need not be on the same machine or running on the same operating system and architecture.
If you are going to use an existing license server, you must know the server host name and port number.
For information about creating a new license server before installing Adaptive Server, see “Installing a new license server”.
There can be only one instance of a SySAM license server
running on a given machine. If you want to setup a SySAM 2.0 license
server on a machine that is already running a SySAM 1.0 license
server, the old license server must be migrated to 2.0. A migrated
license server can serve licenses for both SySAM 1.0 and SySAM 2.0
enabled products.
Please see Appedix F of the Sybase Software Asset Management User's Guide for instructions on migrating a license server.
For information about choosing a license server host, see the “Choosing a license server host” section in Chapter 2, “Choosing a License Model” of the Sybase Software Asset Management User’s Guide.
For information about license server administration, see Chapter 4, “License Server Administration” in the Sybase Software Asset Management User’s Guide.
Sybase recommends that you get your license files from the Sybase Product Download Center (SPDC) before you begin installing Adaptive Server. For inforamtion about accessing SPDC, see “Accessing SPDC”, and for information about generating your licenses at SPDC, see “Generating licenses at SPDC”
