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
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Installing vFabric License Server and
Activating Your License
Procedure
1. Log in as the root user on the RHEL computer on which you are going to install the OSS license agent and start a terminal.
2. Execute the following yum command to install the OSS license agent:
prompt# yum install vfabric-agent
The yum command begins the install process, resolves dependencies, and displays the packages it plans to install.
The yum command automatically choses the appropriate RPM package based on your architecture (32- or 64-bit).
3. Enter y at the prompt to begin the actual installation.
If the installation is successful, you will see a Complete! message at the end.
4. If you are using the standalone (non-vSphere) version of vFabric License Server, configure the OSS license agent to
communicate with the License Server by creating a file called vflicense.properties that contains a single property
(vfabric.licensing.server.address), as shown in the following sample:
vfabric.licensing.server.address=https://host:port
where:
• host is the hostname of the vFabric License Server RHEL computer.
• port is the secure (HTTPS) port number that the License Server listens to for HTTPS requests.
These secure port number was outputted when you installed the License Server.
For example, if your License Server is on host myhost, listening at the default HTTPS port 8443, the file would look like
the following:
vfabric.licensing.server.address=https://myhost:8443
Save the vflicense.properties file in the /opt/vmware/vfabric-agent directory.
You do not perform this step if you install vFabric License Server in a vSphere environment.
Your RHEL computer is now configured to automatically detect whether any of the supported OSS components are installed and
to periodically send usage information to the vFabric License Server.
What the vfabric-agent RPM install does
The yum install of the vfabric-agent RPM performs the following tasks on the RHEL computer:
• If it doesn't already exist, creates the vfabric group.
• Copies the following files and directories (owned by root:vfabric) to disk:
/etc/cron.d/vfabric-agent
/opt/vmware/vfabric-agent
/opt/vmware/vfabric-agent/vfdetect-license.cfg
/opt/vmware/vfabric-agent/vfdetect-scripts
/opt/vmware/vfabric-agent/vfdetect-scripts/oss.rmq
/opt/vmware/vfabric-agent/vfdetect-scripts/oss.tc
/opt/vmware/vfabric-agent/vfdetect-scripts/oss.ws
/opt/vmware/vfabric-agent/vfdetect.log
/usr/sbin/vfdetect
The /etc/cron.d/vfabric-agent file contains the following line: