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Chapter 2

Requesting Your Licenses

Sun Microsystems uses license agreements to specify manufacturer and user obligations concerning the number of users who can access the Sun WorkShopTM software.

Note – For information about domain-based licenses that support products licensed through the GoldPass and ScholarPASS programs, see Domain-Based Licenses.

The following is the process you will follow to request and receive your licenses from the Sun License Center (detailed instructions are described in this chapter):

  1. Choose a license (see Choosing a License).

  2. Choose a license server configuration (see Choosing a License Server Configuration).

  3. Complete the License Request Form (see Completing the License Request Form). When you purchase your Sun WorkShop software, you receive a Proof of License Certificate in the product package. The Proof of License Certificate contains your software serial number, which you will be asked to type on the License Request Form.

  4. Contact the Sun License Center to give the information contained in the License Request Form (see Contacting the Sun License Center).

  5. Receive your license information from the Sun License Center. The Sun License Center responds to your license request within two business days after receiving your request.

Answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ) about Sun WorkShop licensing are available through the World Wide Web by visiting the following web page:

http://www.sun.com/forte

Choosing a License

This release of Sun WorkShop supports the following types of licenses:

Personal Edition (Node-locked), Desktop Edition (Node-locked), and Floating Licenses

This release of Sun WorkShop supports a node-locked (Personal Edition and Desktop Edition) license, where the licensed software only runs on the machine (the node) to which the software is locked. The machine where the licensed software is installed is the application server, and the machine running the license daemons is the license server. With a node-locked license, the license server and the application server might be the same machine, and only one user can run the application on the machine at any one time. If the license server and application server are two different machines, the license on the license server is used only by the host that is specified in the license file.

With a floating license, developers can access licensed software simultaneously over the network through FLEXlm license manager software. When two or more users invoke the same software product at the same time, they are considered concurrent users. The concurrent user license model makes software available to any user on any computer on a network because licenses are floating and not tied to a specific machine. FLEXlm license manager software monitors and controls access to the software. A license can be checked out by any developer on the network and then returned for others to use. A license is checked out transparently by each user who accesses the licensed software.

Domain-Based Licenses

Domain-based licenses tie licensed products to a network domain. Domain-based licenses support products licensed through the GoldPass and ScholarPASS programs and link software to network domains rather than specific license servers. Domain-based licenses function without using a centralized license manager and without enforcing hard limits on the number of users.

The license agreement signed by your organization includes information about the network domains where licensed software is installed and any limitation on the number of users. Licenses are issued only for the domains associated with your site as described in your agreement.

Depending on how your network domains are set up, you can acquire a license for a single product (or product feature) that makes it available on all of the network domains at your site. You can also receive individual licenses for each domain and subdomain. This allows you reasonable control of user access to the software. For example, the license agreement may simply identify my_org.org as the domain on which licensed software may operate. However, you can acquire a license for a particular subdomain (for example, eng.my_org.org) and limit access to that subdomain as well as its subdomains.

Requesting Domain-Based Licenses

Domain-based licenses are available one or two weeks after your GoldPass or ScholarPASS license agreement has been approved. Check the date of the agreement before requesting your license.

Follow these steps to request your domain-based licenses:

1. Collect the following information:

2. Follow the steps in Completing the License Request Form to request and receive your license information from the Sun License Center.

In Step 8 of the License Request Form, add your site number and network domain name or names.

Choosing a License Server Configuration

There are three types of license server configurations available with Sun WorkShop:

For examples of license server configurations, see Chapter 1 in Sun WorkShop 6 Installation and Licensing Reference.

Note – Node-locked (Personal Edition and Desktop Edition) licenses can use a single independent or a redundant server configuration.

Single Independent Server Configuration

A single independent server administers all software licenses. This scenario is suited for sites where programmers, the license server, and application servers are close together on the network. The single independent server configuration is the default and the easiest to install and administer.

Multiple Independent Server Configuration

When you use two or more servers independently, you create a multiple independent server configuration. Using this configuration, you indicate a number of rights to use (RTUs) for each server, and users can obtain a license token from any one of the servers. This scenario is most common for medium to large software development environments distributed over a network.

Distributing the total number of license tokens among multiple license servers increases the likelihood that at least some license tokens will always be available; any license tokens served by computers that are offline are unavailable until those machines are returned to the network.

Redundant Server Configuration

A redundant server configuration enables you to have three servers acting as one logical server managing a set of license tokens. This configuration requires that two of the redundant license servers be operative and able to contact each other. If the redundant servers cannot contact each other, none of the license tokens are available.

At any point, one of the redundant servers is the master server, the one that actually issues license tokens with a heavier processing load. If the master server is unavailable, then the next available peer in the configuration becomes the master server.

Note – Once you have selected the machine to be used as a redundant license server, that machine cannot be used in a different licensing configuration.

The main advantage of redundant servers is an increased likelihood that if any tokens are available, then all tokens are available. The cost is increased installation and maintenance complexity.

Completing the License Request Form

Note – You must use English when completing the License Request Form if you will be contacting the Sun License Center located in the United States.

To obtain your licenses, complete the License Request Form by following these steps:

1. Put the Sun WorkShop 6 CD into your CD-ROM drive.

2. Copy the License Request Form template from the CD to a file name on your system by typing:

% cp /cdrom/devpro_v7n1_platform/License_Request_Form filename
Replace platform with sparc if you use the Solaris SPARC Platform Edition operating environment or intel if you use the Solaris Intel Platform Edition operating environment.
The file is read only when you copy it from the CD to your system; you will need to change permissions on the file in order to write to it.

3. Open your copy of the License Request Form in your preferred editor.

4. In Step 1, type your name, company name, address, telephone and fax numbers, and email address.

5. In Step 2, type an X next to the description that best describes your job title.

6. In Step 3, type an X next to Fax only if you want the Sun License Center to fax your license information to you.

Note – If you ask the Sun License Center to fax your license information to you, you must retype your license information when you install your licenses; if you ask the Sun License Center to email your license information to you, you do not have to retype it.

7. In Step 4, for Try and Buy licenses only, enter the product name and version number of the Sun WorkShop product you are evaluating.

8. In Step 5, type the product name and version number, number of rights to use (RTUs) for which you want a license, and the serial number.

Use the information listed on your Proof of License Certificate (in your product packaging). You do not have to install all of the RTUs listed on your Proof of License Certificate at the same time.

9. In Step 6, enter the license server information for either a single license server or redundant license server.

Note – If you will be using a multiple independent license server configuration, complete a separate License Request Form for each license server.

For floating licenses, you have completed the License Request Form when you have completed Step 6 of the form. Skip to Contacting the Sun License Center.

Note – If you want to use the same license server for both floating and Personal Edition (node-locked) and Desktop Edition (node-locked) licenses, complete a separate License Request Form for each license configuration.

10. If you purchased a Personal Edition (node-locked) and Desktop Edition (node-locked) product, type the node-locked hostid in Step 7 of the form.

Use the output of /usr/bin/hostid for the machine (node) to which the licensed software will be locked (the licensed software will run only on the specified node).

Note – Single independent (including node-locked) and redundant server licenses cannot be mixed in the same license file (the licenses_combined file). A license server and its license file is for either a single independent server or a three redundant server set. A license server cannot handle both. A Personal Edition (node-locked) or Desktop Edition (node-locked) license can be installed on a three redundant server set. The Personal Edition or Desktop Edition hostid on the INCREMENT line in the license file can be the hostid of one of the redundant servers, if that is where the licensed application will be run, or it can be the hostid of an entirely different machine.

11. If you purchased a Sun WorkShop product through the GoldPass or ScholarPASS programs, type your site number and network domain name or names in Step 8 of the form.

For more information about the GoldPass and ScholarPASS programs, see Domain-Based Licenses.

Contacting the Sun License Center

You can contact the Sun License Center through email, fax, or telephone.

Note – The Sun License Center responds by fax or email (the method you ask them to use when you completed Step 3 on the License Request Form) to your license request within two business days after receiving your request.

Email Contact

1. Open your email message composition tool.

2. Copy and paste the completed License Request Form into your email message composition tool.

3. Send the email message to the Sun License Center.

The Sun License Center email address is on the Proof of License Certificate in the product package.

Saving an Email License to File

1. Save to a file the license information that you received from Sun.

Caution – Do not modify the license information that you received from Sun. Any modification could invalidate your licenses.

The email you received from Sun has the license information either in an email attachment (see Step 2) or embedded in the body of the email message (see Step 3).

Note – lit (License Installation Tool) reads the license information directly from the file where you saved the license information you received through email.

2. If you received an email attachment, save only the email attachment to a directory and a file name of your choice on your system.

You are ready to proceed to Chapter 3.

3. If you received an email with the license information embedded in the email message, then copy the license to a file with a name of your choice on your system.

The license information is at the end of the email. The license information will look similar to the license below:

#

# Product : Forte H-Perf Computing 6/SPARC, 6

# Date    : 06-Mar-2000

#

INCREMENT workshop.c.sparc sunwlicd 6.000 05-apr-2000 0 \

        FB0A00211F6E47DA4569 "0" DEMO

#LICENSE_FILE workshop.c.sparc 6.000 sunpro 1

INCREMENT workshop.cc.sparc sunwlicd 6.000 05-apr-2000 0 \

        BBAAA011A70D5DA55649 "0" DEMO

#LICENSE_FILE workshop.cc.sparc 6.000 sunpro 1

INCREMENT workshop.dbx.sparc sunwlicd 6.000 05-apr-2000 0 \

        6BBAD0C1E59E07451CB5 "0" DEMO

#LICENSE_FILE workshop.dbx.sparc 6.000 sunpro 1

INCREMENT workshop.mpmt.sparc sunwlicd 6.000 05-apr-2000 0 \

        1B8AF091A0719719982C "0" DEMO

#LICENSE_FILE workshop.mpmt.sparc 6.000 sunpro 1

INCREMENT workshop.teamware.sparc sunwlicd 6.000 05-apr-2000 0 \

        CBDA30E1D8BA961D6FDE "0" DEMO

#LICENSE_FILE workshop.teamware.sparc 6.000 sunpro 1

INCREMENT workshop.tools.sparc sunwlicd 6.000 05-apr-2000 0 \

        EB5AA0A1C290FAACDB83 "0" DEMO

#LICENSE_FILE workshop.tools.sparc 6.000 sunpro 1

INCREMENT workshop.f77.sparc sunwlicd 6.000 05-apr-2000 0 \

        CB3A5071C8BA195483B6 "0" DEMO

#LICENSE_FILE workshop.f77.sparc 6.000 sunpro 1

INCREMENT workshop.f90.sparc sunwlicd 6.000 05-apr-2000 0 \

        FB8A40714AF0090C4686 "0" DEMO

#LICENSE_FILE workshop.f90.sparc 6.000 sunpro 1


  











   Caution – If you are using a DOS-based email system, use the dos2unix command to convert the license file before using lit to read the license information. If you do not convert the license file before using lit, you might not be able to use your developer tools. See the dos2unix man page for more information.



  



 	4.	 Proceed to Chapter 3 for software installation.





   Fax Contact





 	1.	 Print the License Request Form you completed.



 	2.	 Fax the form to the Sun License Center.


  

     
  The Sun License Center fax number is on the Proof of License Certificate in the product package.
  



 	3.	 Go to Chapter 3. See Fax License Installation for installation details.





   Telephone Contact





 	1.	 Telephone the Sun License Center to give the information on your License Request Form.


  

     
  The Sun License Center telephone number is on the Proof of License Certificate in the product package. You can request to receive the license by Fax or email.
  



 	2.	 Go to Chapter 3.


 

















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