Email License File Installation

If you received an email from the Sun License Center containing your license information, follow these instructions to install your licenses on your license server.

If you have not filled out a License Request Form, see Chapter 2, Requesting Your Licenses for instructions.

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

   The email you received from the Sun License Center has the license information either in an email attachment or embedded in the body of the email message:

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

   • If you received an email with the license information embedded in the email message, strip out the mail headers and the body of the email message, and save only the license information to a directory and a file name of your choice on your system.

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     Caution -

     Do not modify the license information that you received from the Sun License Center. Any modification could invalidate all your licenses.

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     lit_tty reads the information directly from the file where you saved the license information.

2. Become a superuser (root) on your license server by typing the following at the command line:

   % su

   Password: root-password

3. Start lit_tty by typing:

   # /etc/opt/licenses/lit_tty -f license-file

   Replace license-file with the pathname to the file where you saved the license information that the Sun License Center emailed to you. Refer to the lit_tty man page for more information.

4. Decide if you want the displayed license installed.

   • If you want the displayed license installed, type y. lit_tty installs and saves your licenses.

   • If the license listed is not the license you want to install, type n. Contact the Sun License Center (see your Proof of License Certificate for access information).

     If you will be using a redundant server configuration, you must install FLEXlm license manager software and run lit_tty on all three redundant servers. To install FLEXlm license manager software, see Chapter 3, Installing Software.

5. If your application server is different from your license server, copy and run the /etc/opt/licenses/LIC_CONFIG_SCRIPT script on each of the application servers that will access the software products.

   Running the LIC_CONFIG_SCRIPT script creates an elementary license file on your application server. For information on elementary license files, see Chapter 2 in the Sun WorkShop Installation and Licensing Reference.

6. Change the owner of the license server daemon (optional).

   The license server daemon is automatically configured to be owned by nobody. The adjust_flexlm_owner script is provided to allow you to change the user name to a valid account. The user name you select starts the license server daemon and has access to the license manager software utilities. Permissions are updated to allow group read and execute privileges for the user name you selected.

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   Note -

   If you decide to use a user name that does not exist, create the user account before running the adjust_flexlm_owner script.

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   Run the adjust_flexlm_owner script by typing the following at a command line:

   # /etc/opt/licenses/adjust_flexlm_owner

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   Caution -

   To avoid potential security risks, do not use root as the user name.

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   For your changes to take effect, you must stop the license daemon (if it is running) and restart it. To do so, follow the instructions at the end of the script. Run the adjust_flexlm_owner script at any time to change the user name.

7. Exit from superuser privileges by typing:

   # exit

You are now ready to use your Sun WorkShop development tools.