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CHAPTER 2 Sybase Software Asset Management
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For a Developer’s Edition all that is in the license file is a Developer’s Edition
license key (ASE_DEV). The Adaptive Server examines the license and as
long as it is valid continues starting. Because it is a Developer’s Edition all
optional non-royalty features are enabled.
For Small Business or Enterprise Edition the license file contains a pointer to
the SySAM software on the primary server known as the license host, or to a
remote license host where SySAM is running. SySAM consists of a utility,
lmutil, to manage licensing activities, and two daemons – the license
management daemon (
lmgrd) and the vendor daemon (SYBASE). The
daemons handle requests to check in or check out licensed features.
Using information in the license file, Adaptive Server connects to SySAM and
attempts to check out a license (ASE_SERVER or ASE_SBE) for the base
Adaptive Server product. If the ADE_SERVER or ASE_SBE license is
checked out successfully, Adaptive Server continues to start and attempts to
check out any optional features enabled in server_name.cfg.
Utilities
If Adaptive Server is configured to use optional features, such as External File
Access (ASE_XFS) or Java in the database (ASE_JAVA), it attempts to check
out licenses for those features during the start-up process. If a license is not
available for an optional feature, Adaptive Server still starts, but the feature
cannot be used.
Starting Adaptive Server with optional features
You can use sp_configure parameters to turn on or off optional features. The
following parameters are used to configure optional features: