Apply Release 6.x Lite Edition License Files on Mac OS X
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Note: You must be logged in as a user with Administrator privileges.
- For best results, quit all ODBC client applications and administrative tools to start this process, and do not relaunch any of them until instructed to test your connection.
- Locate your new license file in your email or ODS Briefcase, and note its name.
- Open a Finder window, and drill down to Macintosh HD -> Library -> Application Support -> openlink -> Licenses.
- In this directory, locate any existing file by the same name as your new license file.
Generally, this can simply be discarded, but you can keep it if you like; simply move it to a different location (such as your Desktop) or rename it (e.g., sql_lt.lic.2011-03-21.bak).
Once the new license is confirmed to work, it's usually best to discard the expired and/or unused license files, to avoid future confusion.
- Drag your new license file from your email or ODS Briefcase to this directory, replacing any existing file by the same name.
- In this directory, locate any existing file by the same name as your new license file.
Generally, this can simply be discarded, but you can keep it if you like; simply move it to a different location (such as your Desktop) or rename it (e.g., sql_lt.lic.2011-03-21.bak).
Once the new license is confirmed to work, it's usually best to discard the expired and/or unused license files, to avoid future confusion.
- Launch Terminal.app (found in
/Applications/Utilities/
).
- Execute these three commands (you can just copy-and-paste), and provide your Mac OS X user password when prompted --
cd "/Library/Application Support/openlink/Licenses" sudo ../bin/oplmgr +stop sudo ../bin/oplmgr +start
- Note also the following document on the Mac OS X OpenLink License Manager Usage Notes, containing more detailed usages notes with different version of
oplmgr
. - Test your connection with the OpenLink ODBC Administrator.app or any other ODBC client application.
- If license errors come up, reboot, and test again.
- If errors persist, please log a Support Case.
- If license errors come up, reboot, and test again.
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