license information

Summary information

Default value

25

Valid values

0–231

Status

Dynamic

Display level

Comprehensive

Required role

System Administrator

license information allows Sybase System Administrators to monitor the number of user licenses used in Adaptive Server. Enabling this parameter only monitors the number of licenses issued; it does not enforce the license agreement.

If license information is set to 0, Adaptive Server does not monitor license use. If license information is set to a number greater than 0, the housekeeper task monitors the number of licenses used during the idle cycles in Adaptive Server. Set license information to the number of licenses specified in your license agreement.

license information is set to 25, by default. To disable license information, issue the command:

sp_configure "license information", 0

If the number of licenses used is greater than the number to which license information is set, Adaptive Server writes the following error message to the error log:

WARNING: Exceeded configured number of user licenses

At the end of each 24-hour period, the maximum number of licenses used during that time is added to the syblicenseslog table. The 24-hour period restarts if Adaptive Server is restarted.

See “Monitoring license use” for more information.