Basic Migration Steps

Use these steps to migrate from the SA to the new LLS:

Basic Migration Steps

Step

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1

Compare the features between the two license servers. This comparison helps you plan your migration strategy, especially for those features that you currently deploy for the SA, but are not supported with the LLS.

Feature Comparison

2

Define your LLS policy settings based on your current SA settings.

Migrating the License Server Configuration

3

Prepare for LLS packaging and its installation at the customer enterprise. The LLS ‘s deliverables and its default locations for trusted storage, logs, and anchors are different from those of the SA.

Installation and Packaging Changes

4

Determine which method to use to migrate trusted storage at your customer enterprises—migration with license-distribution preservation or without; and provide the enterprises with the appropriate migration instructions.

Migrating Trusted Storage

5

If you provided a custom administrator tool with the SA, you will need to rewrite the tool to enable it to work with the LLS’s REST APIs.

Migrating Administration Tools