5.3
Table Of Contents
- Getting Started with vFabric Suite
- Table of Contents
- 1. About Getting Started with vFabric Suite
- 2. Quick Start Guide
- 3. Overview of vFabric Suite 5.3
- vFabric Suite Editions and Components
- Component Integration and Cross-Platform Consistency
- Optimized for vSphere and Spring-Built Applications
- Product Overviews
- vFabric tc Server 2.9 (Spring Edition)
- vFabric EM4J 1.3
- Spring Insight Operations 1.9
- vFabric Hyperic 5.0
- vFabric GemFire 7.0 (Application Cache Node)
- vFabric RabbitMQ 3.0
- vFabric Web Server 5.3
- vFabric SQLFire 1.1 (Professional)
- vFabric Application Director 5.0 (Provisioning)
- vFabric Postgres 9.2 (Standard Edition)
- 4. vFabric Suite Licensing
- 5. Installing vFabric License Server and Activating Your License
- Installing vFabric License Server on Your vCenter Server
- RHEL Only: Installing vFabric License Server Standalone
- Activate vFabric Suite Licenses
- Optionally Configure Computer to Track License Usage of OSS Components on RHEL
- Upgrade vFabric License Server on vCenter Server
- Uninstall vFabric License Server from vCenter Server
- Uninstall Standalone vFabric License Server
- 6. Monitoring vFabric License Usage
- 7. FAQ: vFabric Suite Integration and Off-Cycle Releases
Installing vFabric License Server and
Activating Your License
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The vCenter Licensing page displays only the capacity of your vFabric Suite license; it does not actually keep
track of the number of licenses currently assigned. See Monitoring vFabric License Usage for information on
using the monitoring commands.
Activate a vFabric Suite License with the Standalone License Server
You activate vFabric licenses when using the standalone vFabric License Server on RHEL by updating a file with your serial
numbers. The vFabric License Server reads this file every minute.
Prerequisites
• Install the standalone vFabric License Server on your RHEL computer.
• Decide how many vFabric Suite license units you need, purchase them, and then get your license key from the VMware license
portal. See How Licensing Works with vFabric Suite Standard and Advanced.
Procedure
1. On the RHEL computer on which you installed the standalone vFabric License Server, log on as the root user, or as a user
who has sudo privileges.
2. If you have not already done so, create a file called serials.txt in the /opt/vmware/vfabric-license-
server/server/vls/webapps/vfabric-license-server/WEB-INF/classes directory. This directory is
created as part of the installation of the standalone vFabric License Server.
3. Add your license keys to the serials.txt file, one key per line, as shown in the following example:
----- VMware vFabric Standard -----
AB123-BC234-CD345-DE456-EF567
----- VMware vFabric Advanced -----
FG123-GH234-HI345-IJ456-JK567
KL123-LM234-MN345-NO456-OP567
Optionally Configure Computer to Track License Usage of OSS
Components on RHEL
If your vFabric license includes support for open-source software (OSS) components, you can also monitor the usage of the
OSS components installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) computers. To do this you must first install a vFabric OSS
license agent on the computer, as described in this section. Subsequently, when you monitor the vFabric license usage with the
monitoring commands or the user interface, the open-source components will also be included in the usage numbers along with
the vFabric components.
You can monitor usage of the following open-source components. Click on the links to view the supported versions and
additional information about the support provided by VMware.
• Apache Tomcat
• Apache HTTP Server
• RabbitMQ
Prerequisites
• Install the vFabric repository RPM. The vFabric RPM repository contains the OSS license agent RPM, which is called
vfabric-agent.
• Ensure that crontab is installed and running on your RHEL computer. The vFabric OSS license agent runs as a cron job.