%META:TOPICPARENT{name="ProductLicensingGuide"}% ---++Preserving & Removing License Files Users often choose to preserve commercial licenses during license upgrades. This facilitates a rollback of the original license, if the replacement license is problematic. Users often choose to remove expired or deprecated license files all together to ensure the uptake of a new, commercial license. This page outlines procedures to perform both tasks. %TOC% ---+++ Preserving License Files OpenLink's license files are easily preserved for quick restoration. ---++++Preserving License Files on Mac Use StuffIt or a similar utility to store the file in a compressed archive. ---++++Preserving License Files on Unix & Linux Use tar or gzip to copy your license file into an archive. For example: tar cvzf opllic.tgz oplrqb.lic ---++++Preserving License Files on Windows Use WinZip or a similar utility to copy your license file to a .zip archive. ---+++ Removing License Files ---++++Removing License Files on Mac 1, [[Shutdown your OpenLink License Manager]], if you use 6.0. 2. Click the Search icon. 3. Type your license name into the search box. For example: oplrqb.lic 4. Drag the license from the search results onto the trash icon. 5. Expand the Finder menu. 6. Click Empty Trash. ---++++Removing License Files on Unix & Linux 1. Login to the Unix or Linux operating system. 2. Use the find command to locate the target license or licenses. bash-2.03$ find / -name oplrqb.lic -print /usr/openlink/bin 3. cd into the directory that contains the license bash-2.03$ cd /usr/openlink/bin 4. Use the ls command to check permissions and ownership of the license. bash-2.03$ ls -al oplrqb.lic -rw-r--r-- 1 openlink other 645 Mar 11 08:06 oplrqb.lic 5. su to the license owner, if required. bash-2.03$ su openlink Password: 6. Use the rm command to remove the license. bash-2.03$ rm oplrqb.lic ---++++Removing License Files on Windows ---+++++ Removing Multi-Tier Licenses 1. Login to the Windows operating system. 2. Expand the Start menu. 3. Click the Control Panel. 4. Open the Administrative Tools sub-folder, if it exists. 5. Launch the Services utility. 6. Shutdown the OpenLink Request Broker. 7. Shutdown the OpenLink License Manager service, if it exists. (6.0+) 8. Expand the Start menu. 9. Launch the Search utility. 10. Search for all license files with the target name. For example: oplrqb.lic 11. Drag the licenses into the trash receptacle. 12. Empty the trash. ---+++++ Removing Single-Tier Licenses 1. Login to the Windows operating system. 2. OpenLink 6.x users [[StopOplmgrWin][stop your OpenLink License Manager]] service. 3. Expand the Start menu. 4. Launch the Search utility. 5. Search for all license files with the target name. For example: oplrqb.lic 6. Drag the licenses into the trash receptacle. 7. Empty the trash.