Obtaining Domain-Based Licenses

Domain-based licenses are available one to two weeks after your ScholarPASS license agreement has been signed and approved. Check the date of the agreement before requesting your license. You can order your license from the License Distribution Center. Refer "How to Contact the License Distribution Center" for more information about how to contact the license distribution center.

You can contact the License Distribution Center by email, fax, or telephone. Order by email or fax, rather than by telephone, if possible. Although you can request your activation key via email, fax, or phone, you will receive your activation key only via email or FAX. Please fill in the activation key request form (refer to "Domain-Based Password Request Form") completely before contacting the License Center.

This is the information that the License Distribution Center will need from you:

• Site number

  This number identifies your organization for all ScholarPASS licensed software. Upon approval of your agreement, a site number is assigned to each site in your organization. If you don't have this number, ask for it from the individual who signed the licensing agreement for your organization.

• Serial number from your Proof of License Certificate

  The serial number is printed on the label attached to the Proof of License Certificate. The Proof of License Certificate is part of your ScholarPASS product package.

• General information, including:

  • Your name and title

  • Name and address of your organization--including ZIP code

  • Your telephone and fax numbers

  • Your email address

• Network domain name(s) for the license(s)

  The domain names that you supply are verified against the information that was provided in the license agreement. A license will be issued only if your requested domain(s) is associated with your site number. It's a good idea to use the widest network domains possible in your organization, taking into account that you do not violate the terms of your licensing agreement by providing access to ineligible users. To determine the network domain name, see "How To Determine the DNS Domain Name" or "How to Determine the NIS/NIS+ Domain Name".

• Name and version number of the products for which you are requesting licenses

How To Determine the DNS Domain Name

If the file /etc/resolv.conf is used to specify the domain for the current machine, that value is the DNS domain name. For example, the domain name is superhero.com in this /etc/resolv.conf file:

------------/etc/resolv.conf------------
domain			superhero.com
nameserver			111.22.33.444
------end of /etc/resolv.conf------

If there is no domain name specified in /etc/resolv.conf, the /usr/ucb/hostname command can be used to determine the DNS domain name. If the hostname command returns a value which contains a period (.), the value returned will be used as the DNS domain name. For example, the value mighty_mouse.superhero.com is returned by this /usr/ucb/hostname command:

% /usr/ucb/hostname
mighty_mouse.superhero.com

If the domain name listed in the /etc/resolv.conf file differs from the one returned by the /usr/ucb/hostname command, the value in the /etc/resolv.conf file takes precedence and should be registered as your required domain.

How to Determine the NIS/NIS+ Domain Name

The value of the NIS or NIS+ domain is the output of the domainname command. For example, the value superhero.com is returned by this domainname command:

% domainname
superhero.com

How to Contact the License Distribution Center

There are three ways to obtain licenses for these products:

• Email

• Fax

• Phone

Licensing by email is the easiest method to obtain licenses.

• All products can be licensed from an auto-response mail file, which means you don't have to license products individually.

• All licensing data is stored in the auto-response mail file so you don't have to worry about mistyping the 15-character password.

• You can ignore the product licensing items on the graphical License Installation Tool window because all product license information is read from the saved mail file.

It may take up to 24 hours after submitting your license request before you receive your license information via email of FAX.

You can contact a License Center locally or from outside a particular country via email, phone, or FAX. At the main voice menu, simply follow the directions for software licensing.

Refer to your license certificate for specific information about contacting the license distribution center.

How To Install Domain-Based Licenses

You will receive password licenses from the License Distribution 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 operate these ScholarPASS configured products. Installation should take you 15 minutes.

1. Verify that you have the following directory.

   % ls /basedir/SUNWadm/license_dir

   In this command,

   basedir

   Specifies the directory where the software is installed.

   If you have the appropriate directory, skip to Step 3. If you do not, then continue with Step 2.

2. Become root, then create this directory.

   # mkdir /basedir/SUNWadm/license_dir

   In this command,

   basedir

   Specifies the directory where the software is installed.

3. Take the password information provided by the License Distribution Center and save it in a text file:

   License	File Name
   ScholarPASS	sunpro.lic,sp

   Make sure your file name 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 incremented name (for example, sunpro.lic,sp1, or sunpro.lic,sp2).

4. Verify the contents and location of the file (it should be placed in the directory indicated in ""), then save the file.

   Your licensed software is ready to use.