Licensing SCO OpenServer products

The SCO OpenServer License is a contract that grants you rights to use SCO OpenServer software. SCO OpenServer and additional SCO OpenServer products (including increases for additional users, memory, and CPUs) must be licensed. You license the base operating system when you install it. Most additional SCO OpenServer products also prompt you for their license information during their installation process.

Typically, you obtain SCO OpenServer product licenses from your SCO OpenServer software provider. The license information may be included in the media kit obtained from your software provider, or you may need to acquire the license from your software provider's web site.

The software license agreement accompanies all SCO OpenServer products on the installation CD-ROM (typically in a directory named /info/license). Some SCO OpenServer products display the license agreement when you install the product, at which time you are prompted to read and accept the terms.

SCO OpenServer product licenses contain the following information:

License Number

A unique serial number identifying each SCO OpenServer product.

License Code

A license code that activates the product.

License Data

Additional license information needed to activate some products. If this field is not provided with your license, it is not required.

See also:

• ``Installing SCO OpenServer edition and upgrade licenses'' for important information.

• ``Licensing and registering SCO OpenServer products'' for information on using the License Manager.

Installing SCO OpenServer edition and upgrade licenses

The number of licenses that you will need to supply when installing SCO OpenServer Release 6 varies, depending on whether or not you are upgrading from a previous release.

If you are using an upgrade license to install SCO OpenServer Release 6, you must also supply the license(s) for your previous SCO OpenServer release. The SCO OpenServer installation evaluates your upgrade license and then prompts you for any other licenses that are required. If you must enter multiple licenses, they need to be entered in reverse order, from most recent to the originally purchased license.

The most common licensing scenarios are described here:

• Installing a new SCO OpenServer Release 6 system

  You only need to enter the license that was supplied with your SCO OpenServer Release 6 product.

• Upgrading from Release 5.0.7 with the SCO Update Service

  Your SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 Update Service license serves as your Release 6 upgrade license. Depending on how you purchased the SCO Update Service, do one of the following:
  

  1. Enter the SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 / SCO Update Service bundled license.

  OR

  1. Enter the SCO Update Service enabler license.

  2. Enter the SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 license.

  If your SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 license is also an upgrade from an earlier release, you need to supply additional licenses. See the next bullet item for more information.

• Upgrading from other SCO OpenServer Release 5 systems

  When upgrading from a previous release, you need to supply each of your previous SCO OpenServer system licenses, in the reverse order that you acquired them. The last license you enter should be the original SCO OpenServer system license you purchased. Use the following sequence:

  1. Enter the SCO OpenServer Release 6 upgrade license.

  2. Enter the SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.6 or Release 5.0.7 license or upgrade license.

  3. If you supplied a Release 5.0.6/5.0.7 upgrade license, enter the original SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.4 or Release 5.0.5 license.

  If you have licenses for additional memory, CPUs, and/or users, you enter these after the SCO OpenServer installation is complete, using the License Manager. See ``Licensing and registering SCO OpenServer products'' in the online documentation for more information.

If you are upgrading to SCO OpenServer Release 6 and want to take advantage of the new hardware support offered in this release by installing on a new computer, you may find it helpful to keep your existing SCO OpenServer system on the network as a point-of-reference while completing post-installation configuration. Note, however, that the Licensing Policy Manager Daemon (sco_pmd) will prevent the simultaneous use of the same SCO OpenServer license on your Release 6 and existing Release 5 systems.

To avoid this problem, you can enter an Evaluation License when installing your Release 6 system. Obtain an Evaluation License by pressing <F8> on the Licensing installation screen. When you are ready to decommission your original SCO OpenServer machine, remove it from the network and replace the Evaluation License on the Release 6 system by running the License Manager and entering your SCO OpenServer Release 6 upgrade license, using the steps described earlier in this section.

1. Do one of the following:

   • For an SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 / SCO Update Service bundled license:

     • Run the following command, supplying the License Number (os_license_number), License Code (os_license_code), and License Data (os_license_data) from your bundled Operating System / Update Service license.
       
       # brand -g os_license_number os_license_code 'os_license_data'

   • For separate SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 and SCO Update Service enabler licenses:

     • Run the following command, supplying the License Number (os_license_number) and License Code (os_license_code) from your Release 5.0.7 Operating System license.
       
       # brand -g os_license_number os_license_code

     • Then run the following, this time supplying the License Number (sus_license_number), License Code (sus_license_code), and License Data (sus_license_data) from your SCO Update Service enabler license. You also need to enter your Release 5.0.7 Operating System License Number (os_license_number) again, as the last option to this command:
       
       # brand -g sus_license_number sus_license_code \
            'sus_license_data' os_license_number

2. Run:
   
   # brand -W os_license_number

3. Run the following to update the in-kernel license table:
   
   # sco_pmd -k

4. If necessary, start the Licensing Policy Manager Daemon by running sco_pmd.

Your SCO OpenServer Release 6.0.0 system is now fully licensed.

See also:

• ``Installation and Licensing'' in the New Features and Notes topic

• SCO OpenServer Migration and Upgrade Guide, available from http://www.sco.com/support/docs/openserver