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20 vFabric Suite
20 vFabric Suite Licensing
You obtain a pool of licenses that you activate by adding only one license key to the vFabric License Server. Rather than
installing a license key on each machine, you register one license key that represents the number of license units that you have
purchased. See Activate vFabric Suite Licenses.
To check the validity of a license key, see Check the Validity of an Existing License Key.
The production license is a V8 license that is perpetual for a particular version and package (Standard or Advanced) of vFabric
Suite. If you do not install a license, your component installation defaults to an evaluation license, which is valid for 60 days after
you first start the component. The license includes support for all vFabric products in your vFabric Suite Standard or vFabric
Suite Advanced package.
Licensing for Standalone vFabric Components
If you purchase a vFabric component individually, rather than as part of a vFabric Suite Standard or Advanced package, you
install license keys locally, on one or more machines. Local licensing does not involve integration with the vFabric License
Server.
To install a local license for a standalone vFabric product, refer to the documentation for that product. Each
product implements licensing in a slightly different way. To check the validity of a license key, see Check the
Validity of an Existing License Key.
Check the Validity of an Existing License Key
If you have previously installed one or more vFabric components, such as vFabric GemFire or vFabric tc Server, you might
already have a license key (also referred to as a serial number in the following procedure). However, you need to confirm
whether it is valid for the latest release of the component or in the context of vFabric Suite. The vfabric-licensetool
checkserial utility checks the validity of your existing license key.
For each license key that you input, the utility displays detailed information such as the vFabric component to which it is
associated, the type of license key, the capacity, and its expiration date.
Procedure
1. From the Drivers and Tools tab of the download page for vFabric Suite Advanced or Standard, download the vFabric
License Check Tool utility ZIP file onto the computer on which you want to run it.
The file is called vfabric-vfchksn-version.bin.zip.
2. Unzip the file into a directory.
The utility and supporting files are unzipped into the vfabric-vfchksn-version child directory.
3. If necessary, install a JDK or JRE on the computer.
Be sure the JAVA_HOME and PATH environment variables point to the JDK or JRE.
For example, if you installed the JDK in /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_24, you can set the environment variables in the user's
Linux profile as follows:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_24
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
4. Open a command (Windows) or terminal (Linux) window, change to the directory in which you unzipped the utility, and run
the following (Linux):
prompt$ vfabric-licensetool checkserial [options] serial-number
On Windows: