License Management
Universal Messaging provides two types of license:
A cost-free trial license for evaluation purposes.
A purchasable commercial license that enables all product features or a tailored subset of features.
Note:
Universal Messaging ships with a trial license, which allows the server to run for a maximum of 90 days from first run.
If you install the product using the Software AG Installer, the Installer offers you the choice of using the trial license or activating the commercial license if you have purchased one. If you install with the trial license, you can activate the full license at a later time, as described below.
Upgrading from a trial license to a commercial license
If you installed the product with a trial license for testing or evaluation purposes, the installed trial license is called licence.xml. If you now wish to purchase a commercial license for production purposes, please contact us, and you will receive a commercial license file which is also called licence.xml.
To upgrade from the trial license to the commercial license, proceed as follows:
1. Make a backup copy of the trial license file.
2. Replace your existing trial licence.xml by the commercial licence.xml.
3. Restart your server.
There is no requirement to install any additional software.
The location of the license file is by default as follows:
<InstallDir>/UniversalMessaging/server/<InstanceName>
where <InstallDir> is the disk location where the product is installed, and <InstanceName> is the name of the realm server to which the license applies.
Upgrading an installed commercial license
Depending on the commercial license you have purchased, certain product features may be enabled or disabled. If you wish to enable additional product features that are not covered by the current commercial license, you can purchase an upgraded license that allows you to activate the additional features. To activate the upgraded license, replace the existing commercial license file
licence.xml by the new license file, following the procedure described in the section
Upgrading from a trial license to a commercial license above. There is no need to install any new software.
Downgrading an installed commercial license
If for any reason you decide that your current commercial license enables more product features than you require, and you wish to switch to a more restrictive set of features, you can purchase a downgraded license that allows you to deactivate some product features.
To activate the downgraded license, replace the existing commercial license file licence.xml by the new license file, then restart the server. There is no need to install any new software.
Note:
NOTE: If you downgrade the license file, this may disable some product features that you rely on for production work, which may in turn may cause the server to stop working, or work in an inconsistent state. Therefore, if you plan to downgrade a license, we recommend you to ensure that the already configured server does not use features that are unavailable in the downgraded license. Additionally, we recommend you to test your downgraded environment before going into production.
Downgrading the license of a blank (freshly installed) server instance does not have these limitations.
License activation
If you change a product license file as described in the scenarios above, you need to restart the Universal Messaging server or cluster in order to activate the new license.