DAI Comparescan User's Guide
Licensing and Installation

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Licensing and Installation

Overview

What You Need

• Product floppy disks, product tapes, tar file from ftp, or the e-mail parts

1. If you obtained the product floppy disks or the product tapes, the instructions for how to extract the distribution files are listed on the label of the media. There should be a compressed tar file and an installation script.

2. If you obtained the e-mail parts, type the following command to extract the installation script from the first part.

• Sufficient disk space

1. For SunOS and Solaris, you should reserve at least 10 megabytes of free disk space each.

2. For SGI and HP, you should reserve at least 15 megabytes of free disk space each.

3. For AIX, you should reserve at least 20 megabytes of free disk space.

• The activation key from Design Acceleration

1. Call Design Acceleration at 408-559-8500

2. Email to sales@designacc.com

Installing the Product

• Become root if possible so that you can install the files in the default directories.

• In the directory where you put your distribution files, run dai-install.

It prompts you with a series of questions. By default, the DAI Comparescan executable is installed in /usr/local/bin, and all other files, including documentation and the license manager daemon, are installed in /usr/local/lib/designacc. In both cases, you may choose different directories. All questions have default answers displayed in square brackets. Press Return to accept the default answer for any question.

If you cannot become root, then you will need to install the product in a directory where you have write permissions, rather than in the default directories.

Installing the License

1. To install the activation key, go to the directory where you installed the license manager executables and run da_enterkey.

2. To install the license daemon, go to the directory where you installed the license manager executables and run da_elmd.

3. To verify that you have successfully installed the activation key and the license manager and check on licenses, run da_elmadmin.

Sample Output:

Elan License Manager - Copyright 1989-1994 Elan Computer Group, Inc.

Server cholon:

CID LID User Feature Started

S 2 1 user1@cholon,:0.0 300 - Sep 15 17:03

S 3 2 user2@cholon,:0.0 300 - Sep 15 17:44

S 7 4 user3@cholon,:0.0 300 - Sep 15 16:29

S 8 5 user4@cholon,:0.0 300 - Sep 15 16:32

300: 20 licenses, 4 in use; installed Aug-30-95 Expires Aug-15-96.

License Manager Commands

da_startdaemon

A convenient shell script to start up the license daemon

da_enterkey

A convenient shell script to install the activation key

da_elmd

Starts the license manager daemon

da_elmadmin

Installs activation keys, lists the users of licensed products, and other administrative functions

da_elmusage

Produces a snapshot report of current license activity

da_elmver

Print license manager version information

da_elmalert

Provides a notification when licenses become available or expire

da_elmrpt

Produces a report of licenses available or license activity from one or more license server log files

Refer to Appendix B for a full description of each command.

Installing The PLI Routines

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