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.
OpenLink's license files are easily preserved for quick restoration.
Use
Use tar or gzip to copy your license file into an archive. For example:
tar cvzf opllic.tgz oplrqb.lic
Use
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.
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
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
7.
Shutdown the
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.
1. Login to the Windows operating system.
2.
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.