Migration Process
The process of migrating trusted storage from the SA to the LLS without preserving the current license-distribution state consists of these phases:
Migration Procedure
Have the license administrator at the customer enterprise perform these steps to migrate trusted storage.
To migrate to the LLS without license-distribution preservation
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Download and install the LLS as a service on the same machine where the SA is installed. For more information, see the “Installing and Running the License Server” chapter in the FlexNet Embedded License Server Producer Guide. |
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Activate the licenses on the LLS using the online- or offline-activation process; otherwise, if you have enabled capability-polling on the LLS, the licenses should be automatically activated. |
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For more information about setting up capability-polling, see the “Policies for Back Office Polling...” in the appendix “Reference: Policy Settings for the License Server” in the FlexNet Embedded License Server Producer Guide. |
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For information about passing activation IDs and counts to the back office (FlexNet Operations) in online or offline mode, see “Activating Licenses on the Server” or “APIs to Perform Offline Binary Operations” in the “License Server Endpoints” chapter in the FlexNet Embedded License Server Producer Guide. |
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Use the ready-to-use FlexNet License Administrator command-line tool to activate the licenses. See the FlexNet Embedded License Server Administration Guide for details. |
The LLS should proceed with normal licensing operations—accepting capability requests from client devices, synchronizing to the back office (if enabled), polling the back office for license updates (if enabled), and other operations.
Note:The LLS accepts capability requests at the same URI (“/fne/bin/capability”) at which the SA accepted them; therefore, no change in the FlexNet Embedded client configuration is required.
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Use the validation procedure described in Post-Migration Validations to verify that the license server has been successfully migrated. |
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Once successful migration is verified, uninstall the SA. |
Post-Migration Validations
Have the license administrator at the customer enterprise perform these tasks to verify that the trusted-storage migration completed successfully.
To validate that the trusted-storage migration to the LLS was successful
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Using the FlexNet License Administrator tool, run the following: |
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flexnetlsadmin -status to perform a health check on the LLS. |
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flexnetlsadmin -licenses to verify that licenses have been activated appropriately on the LLS. |
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Confirm that the LLS allows existing clients to renew their borrowed licenses. |
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Confirm that new clients can obtain licenses from the LLS. |
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Examine the LLS log to verify that online synchronization to the back office is working (if the producer has enabled this functionality). |
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Use the FlexNet Operations End User Portal to verify that the LLS’s operations with the back office are functioning properly. That is, make sure that you can view the license server’s properties, its served clients, and other information. |