When you purchase licenses for Sybase Replication Server products, you are issued a Sybase Software Asset Management Certificate. The certificate has the following information for each product:
Order Number
Feature Name
Feature Count
Software Version
Authorization Code
Product Description
This information is used by SySAM to build the license file, with new licenses. Here is a license file example, license.dat:
SERVER server1 ANY 4100
VENDOR SYBASE $SYBASE/$SYBASE_SYSAM/bin/SYBASE
REP_SERVER INCREMENT REP_SERVER SYBASE 12.0 PERMANENT 1000 123456789123 SN=10001 OVERDRAFT=10000 ck=0
REP_SERVER – is the feature name.
12.6 – is the version number.
Feature Count – immediately follows the license type, PERMANENT.
SN=10001 – is the Order Number.
OVERDRAFT= ### – is the maximum licenses that can be checked out.
123456789123 – is a 12-digit number representing the authorization code.
The authorization code is case-sensitive. If you make a mistake while entering the authorization code, correct it by accessing the license file with a text editor, making the necessary changes, and saving the file.
The file is located in $SYBASE/$SYBASE_SYSAM/licenses/license.dat.
WARNING! Tampering with any portion of the licenses file other than the authorization code invalidates the license.