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Preface


The WorkShop Installation and Licensing Guide provides the procedures to obtain product licenses and to install these licenses, the appropriate product software, and the online documents. Many of the tasks associated with managing licenses and software are explained in detail, as well as how the licensing software applies to different situations.

Using this guide, you can fulfill all the tasks needed prior to working with the WorkShop products you purchased. The products you can install using this guide include:


Who Should Use This Book

The WorkShop Installation and Licensing Guide audience includes system administrators and developers. Users of this guide will install the product software and configure the license servers so that developers can access the software over the network.


How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1, "Preparing for Installation," provides software compatibility information, a list of system configurations needed and required disk space, and a sequence of licensing and installing WorkShop software.

Chapter 2, "Getting Your Licenses," includes instructions on how to get your software licenses from the Sun License Center.

Chapter 3, "Installing Product Software," explains how to install the product and licensing software and the online documents you received.

Chapter 4, "Installing Your Licenses," provides license server information as well as procedures for you to use when you install the licenses on the server configuration you select.

Chapter 5, "Managing Your Licenses," describes different activities you may need to perform to keep your licenses current.

Chapter 6, "Managing the Software," explains details of the product software.

Chapter 7, "Using Online Documents," includes procedures for accessing AnswerBookTM and HTML documentation.

You should read Appendix A, "Installing Domain-Based Password Licenses," if you are on the ScholarPassTM or GoldPassTM program.

Appendix B, "General Licensing Information," provides additional information about Sun's licensing mechanism and server configurations.

Appendix C, "WorkShop Products and Packages," lists the WorkShop products available, the licenses needed to invoke products, and the feature names for each platform. The package components and configurations are also listed.

The glossary  defines key words and phrases used in this book.


Typographic Conventions

Table P-1 describes the typographic conventions used in this book.

Table  P-1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface or Symbol
Meaning
Example

AaBbCc123

The names of commands, files, and directories; onscreen computer output

Edit your .login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

% You have mail.

AaBbCc123

What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output

% su

Password:

AaBbCc123

Command-line placeholder:

replace with a real name or value

To delete a file, type rm <filename>.

AaBbCc123

Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasized

Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options.

You must be root to do this.

AaBbCc123 \
aabbccdd

Continuation of a code line

# lmstat -a -c \ /etc/opt/licenses\ /licenses_combined




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