Sybase 15.0.2 manual Accessing Spdc, Pre-installation tasks for SySAM

Pre-installation tasks for SySAM

•For information about creating a new license server before installing Adaptive Server, see “Installing a new license server” on page 21.

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 2.0 enabled products.

Please see Appedix F of the Sybase Software Asset Management User's

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 User’s Guide.

For information about license server administration, see Chapter 4, “License Server Administration” in the Sybase Software Asset Management User’s Guide.

3 Sybase recommends that you get your license files from the Sybase

Product Download Center (SPDC) at https://sybase.subscribenet.com before

you begin installing Adaptive Server. For information about accessing SPDC, see “Accessing SPDC” on page 16, and for information about generating your licenses at SPDC, see “Generating licenses at SPDC” on page 18.

Accessing SPDC

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

To access SPDC when you have purchased Sybase products from Sybase:

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