Obtaining a License

For simple installations follow the instructions for obtaining and installing the SySAM license. No additional information should be necessary.

1. Decide which SySAM license model to use:
   
   • The unserved license model – obtains licenses directly from the license file. If you use an unserved license, simply save the license to the same machine on which the cluster server is installed.
   • The served license model – uses a license server to manage the allocation of your licenses to multiple machines.
   For information about served and unserved licenses, and for deciding which model is best suited for your environment, see Chapter 2, “Choosing a License Model” in the Sybase Software Asset Management Users Guide
2. If you plan to use a served license, you need a license server. Decide whether it is 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 plan to use an existing license server, you must know the server host name and port number.
   Note: 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-enabled products.

   Please see Appendix F of the Sybase Software Asset Management Users 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 Users Guide.
   • For information about license server administration, see Chapter 4, “License Server Administration” in the Sybase Software Asset Management Users Guide.
3. Sybase recommends that you get your license files from the Sybase Product Download Center (SPDC) before installing Adaptive Server. For information about accessing SPDC, see the Sybase Software Asset Management Users Guide.

• Accessing SPDC
  Once you have purchased a Sybase product, download the product and generate its licenses from the online Web portal, the Sybase Product Download Center (SPDC.)