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Installing Domain-Based Password Licenses

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This chapter provides instructions for acquiring and installing domain-based passwords. Domain-based passwords support products licensed through the GoldPass and ScholarPass sales programs and link software to network domains rather than specific license servers (machine as indicated by hostid).

Follow these steps for installation:

1. Install your software packages using the procedures in Chapter 3, "Installing Product Software."

2. Acquire and install your domain-based passwords, following the instructions in "Getting Domain-Based Passwords" on page A-58.


Introduction to Domain-Based Passwords

A standard password ties a product to a particular machine as defined by its hostid, but domain-based passwords tie licensed products to a network domain. To provide a simple method for controlling access to the software, individual passwords can be ordered for domains or subdomains.

Domain-based passwords function without using a centralized license manager and without enforcing hard limits on the number of users. However, your software license may limit the number of users; these limits are defined in the licensing agreement.

The licensed software operates as long as the requesting user of the licensed software is on a valid network domain.

The license agreement signed by your organization includes information about the network domains where licensed software is installed. Passwords 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 password 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 passwords 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 password for a particular subdomain (for example, eng.my_org.org) and limit access to the subdomain as well as its subdomains.


Getting Domain-Based Passwords

Domain-based passwords are available one to two weeks after your GoldPass or ScholarPass license agreement has been signed and approved. Check the date of the agreement before requesting your password.

You get your passwords from the Sun License Center. You can contact the Sun License Center by email, fax, or telephone. We recommend that you contact the center by email.

The Sun License Center will need the following from you:


Installing Domain-Based Passwords

You will receive license passwords from the Sun License Center. The current implementation of domain-based passwords does not use a separate license server, so it is not necessary to run a license server to use the GoldPass and ScholarPass configured licenses.

1. Check your directories to see if you have one of these directories:

For Solaris 2.x: <installation_directory>/SUNWspro/license_dir
For Solaris 1.x: /usr/lang/license_dir

The default installation directory is /opt.

If you have the appropriate directory, go to Step 3. If not, continue with
Step 2.

2. Become root; then create one of the following directories by typing:

For Solaris 2.x: # mkdir \
<installation_directory>/SUNWspro/license_dir
For Solaris 1.x: # mkdir /usr/lang/license_dir

3. Save the password information provided by the License Center in a text file named as follows:

GoldPass license filename: sunpro.lic,gp
ScholarPass license filename: sunpro.lic,sp

Make sure your filename contains both a period (.) and a comma (,). You can append the contents of this new file to an existing domain-based password file or create additional files with an incremental name (for example, sunpro.lic,sp1, or sunpro.lic,sp2).

4. Check the software with the -lmstat command-line option.

# lmstat -A

This will print the current license status of all products installed.


Note - The number of licenses available is zero, which translates to unlimited, for a domain-based password.

5. You can now use your licensed software.

DNS Domain Name for Current Machine




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