When you start Replication Server 12.6, it looks for the license file specified in the LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable. If this environment variable is not set, Replication Server looks for the license.dat license file located in $SYBASE/$SYBASE_SYSAM/licenses.
The license file contains a pointer to the SySAM software on the local or remote server where SySAM is running. The machine where the license certificates are registered is called the license host. All machines that point to the license file on the license host are called secondary servers.
To differentiate the secondary servers that point to
the license host from secondary Replication Servers, these machines
are referred to in this document as licensee servers.
SySAM consists of a utility, lmutil, to manage licensing activities, and two daemons: lmgrd, the license management daemon, and the SYBASE daemon. The daemons handle requests to check in or check out licensed features, as shown in Figure A-1.
Using information in the license file, Replication Server connects to SySAM and attempts to check out a license (REP_SERVER) for the base Replication Server product.
Replication Server version 12.6 continues its start-up
process even if the REP_SERVER license does not check out
successfully, although it does so with a warning message.
