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If you intend to use served licenses, you can either install the SySAM license server provided as part of the PowerDesigner installation or locate an existing SySAM license server on your network, to which your PowerDesigner licenses can be assigned.

Context

Note For information about assigning licenses to an existing SySAM server, see Adding Additional Licenses with lmtools

The license server serves a license to a user upon request and retrieves it when it is no longer being used. If all the licenses are already in use, the license server informs you that no license is available.

You must already have obtained a license file before you can install the license server (see Obtaining a License).

Note

License servers installed with PowerDesigner v11 are not compatible with v12.0 and higher. If you no longer use PowerDesigner v11, we recommend that you uninstall the old license server.

If you borrow a mobile license and your workstation has installed other products with Flexlm served licenses, you may encounter problems returning your license to the server.

Procedure

  1. Select the machine on which you want to install the SySAM license server (this should not be a workstation on which you will install any SAP product). Navigate to and double-click Autorun.exe in your PowerDesigner DVD to launch the installer, and click Sybase Asset Management (SYSAM). Alternatively, if you have downloaded an install, download SySAM from the SAP Support Portal.

    SySAM can be obtained by navigating to https://support.sap.com/software/installations/a-z-index.htmlInformation published on SAP site, clicking Start of the navigation path S Next navigation step SYSAM Next navigation step SYSAM 2.3 End of the navigation path and following the installation instructions.

  2. Click Next to display the license agreement page. Read the License Agreement and click the I Agree radio button to accept the terms of the agreement. If you click I Do Not Agree, the installation will be canceled.
  3. Click Next to display the license file definition page. Click the Load button and browse to the folder where your license file is located. The content of the license file is displayed in the License key box.
  4. Click Next to display the destination folder page. Select the suggested installation directory or browse to a new one and then click Next to go to the settings page.
  5. Click Next to accept the current settings and start copying files.

    The copy starts. A progress box is displayed and Setup copies files to the destination directory. When installation is complete, you can choose to start the license server as a service.

  6. Click Finish to exit the wizard.
    Note

    If a firewall is activated on the computer where the license server is installed, then the ports 27000 and 27010 must be opened in the firewall. For a Windows Firewall, you may need to add the port 27000 and the SySAM executable (for example C:\Sybase\SYSAM-2_1\Bin\SYBASE.exe to the list of exceptions.

    Additionally, on Windows and UNIX platforms, edit the license server license files to add the port number 27000 to the line beginning SERVER and add a new line VENDOR SYBASE PORT=27010 directly after it. When you have finished, these lines should read as follows:
    SERVER <server_name> <server_id> 27000
VENDOR SYBASE PORT=27010

In this section:
    Serving Named User Licenses
    Named User licenses, which allow a specific person to use PowerDesigner, can be deployed to the user's machine or served by SySAM. To correctly serve and assign Named User licenses you must create a special SySAM option file.
    Adding Additional Licenses with lmtools
    The license server should configure itself correctly at installation. If you need to subsequently add additional licenses or otherwise administer the server, you can do so using lmtools.exe
    Troubleshooting with lmutil
    lmutil.exe, which is available in the SYSAM-<x_x>\Bin folder provides various diagnostic possibilities.
    SySAM for IPv6 Environments
    By default, the 32-bit Windows version of SySAM for IPv4 is provided in the PowerDesigner setup. You can add IPv6 support easily after installation by copying the appropriate executables in the installation directory.
    SySAM for 64-Bit and Non-Windows Environments
    You can obtain a SySAM server for 64-bit Windows or for a non-Windows environment from the SAP Support Portal.