If the license can be issued during the grace period, the issue is logged and SQL 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
SQL 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 SQL Expert operates in the grace period until you fix the issue causing the license failure. When the issue is fixed, SQL Expert automatically acquires the license and moves from grace period mode into normal mode. If SQL Expert cannot obtain the license before the grace period expires, SQL Expert stops running.
If you obtain a SQL Expert license from a network license
server, SQL 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 SQL Expert instances acquired all available licenses before this
instance could reacquire a license. If this happens, SQL 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 SQL Expert to see the current license status.
