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Maintaining OVO
Maintaining Licenses
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Maintaining Licenses
OVO uses the OVKey license mechanism to install and maintain product
licenses. The OVKey license technology is based on node-locked licenses
with license passwords in a license file, not on a central license server.
Advantages of OVKey Licenses
One clear and significant advantage of this approach is that you do not
need to set up a license server that handles the licenses. In addition, you
can use the product behind firewalls and in cluster environments.
Replacing Instant On Licenses with OVKey Licenses
OVO provides a command-line tool, opclic, to maintain the licenses. For
more information about the command-line interface, see the man page
opclic(1M).
After installing OVO, you replace the Instant On licence with the
correct license. The licence maintenance tool opclic ensures that the
license file does not contain more than one server license.
Types of Licenses
License types relate very strictly to the OVO product structure. Each
sub-product or licensable feature has its own license type and product
number. However, not all licenses will be required for OVO to run. In
some cases a message in the Message Browser window informs you
when no license is available, or a license has expired.
For more detailed information on the types of licenses available in OVO,
see Table 13-8 on page 549.
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