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| Sun ONE Application Server 7, Standard Edition Installation Guide |
Licensing InformationThis section lists describes the different licenses offered by Sun ONE Application Server.
About Licensing
When you download Sun ONE Application Server from the product web site or purchase the product CD, a license file is included with the product. Your rights to the product are governed by the license that was accepted at install or upon upgrade of the license.
After installing Sun ONE Application Server, you can later upgrade or transition your license to another version. For example, you can upgrade a Platform Edition application server to an operational Standard Edition license.
To upgrade or transition your license, you must download the new license key from http://www.sun.com/as7upgrade and install it using the command-line utilities provided with the product. See Using the License Commands for more information.
Types of Licenses
The following table describes the types of licenses offered by Sun ONE Application Server and the options for each.
Evaluation
This license expires in 60 days.
The evaluation license is initialized at installation time. The expiration date is calculated based on the current date. When you restart the server, a warning message is issued every day for 14 days before the license expires. The server cannot be restarted after the expiration date of the license.
You can upgrade an evaluation license to Platform Edition, Developer Edition, or Standard Edition licenses.
Note The evaluation license installed with non-package-based Solaris cannot be upgraded to any other type of license.
Developer
This license does not expire.
The Developer license allows you to perform the same functions as the Standard Edition license, with the exception that you cannot deploy an application to a production server. You must upgrade your license to Standard Edition or Platform Edition before deploying your applications for production.
Platform Edition
This license does not expire.
The Platform Edition of Sun ONE Application Server imposes the following limitations:
- Only local requests to the Administration server are accepted.
- Only one server instance per Administration server is allowed.
- You cannot send requests from a web server plugin that also sends requests to another application server.
- You cannot send alerts to a remote system via SNMP.
A warning message appears when you attempt to perform either a remote request to the Administration server or to create additional server instances. You must upgrade to the Developer or Standard Edition license to perform these tasks.
Standard Edition
This license does not expire.
The Standard Edition license is installed with the full-featured version of Sun ONE Application Server and imposes no limitations on the functionality of the product.
Using the License Commands
Sun ONE Application Server contains command-line utilities for managing your licenses after installation.
To upgrade your license after installation, you can use the asadmin utility's install-license command for Windows machines. This command must be run locally on the machine on which you have installed the Sun ONE Application Server. You must stop any running application server before installing a license.
It has the following syntax:
asadmin install-license
For unbundled Solaris package-based installations, the following syntax is used for license installation:
pkgadd -d full_path SUNWaslco
For example,
pkgadd -d /install_dir/pkg SUNWaslco
For Solaris 9 bundled license installation, the following syntax is used for license installation:
pkgadd -d full_path SUNWaslc
To get information on your license, use the display-license command, which has the following syntax:
asadmin display-license [--user admin_user] [--password admin_password] [--passwordfile password_file][--host localhost] [--port admin_port] [--local=true/false]
This command can be run locally or remotely, depending on the value of the local option. For example, to run the command from the local machine, taking the defaults for the host and the port number, the syntax is:
asadmin display-license --local
The output describes the type of license currently installed (for example, evaluation) the expiration date, if it has one, the number of instances per Administration Sever your license allows, and whether remote administration is allowed or not.
For more information on command syntax, see the command-line interface help. For more information on using asadmin, see the Sun ONE Application Server 7 Administrator's Guide.