Installation guide

Updating Your license.bea File
BEA Products Installation Guide 6-3
For a description of the product offerings supported by the BEA Products license files, see the
Licensing page at the following URLs:
z http://e-docs.bea.com/common/docs92/interm/license.html (WebLogic Server)
Updating Your license.bea File
When you install your BEA software, the installation program generates a development
license.bea file for use with the software and installs it in the BEA Home directory. If you are
installing your software in an existing BEA Home, the installation program automatically adds
the development license included with your product distribution to the existing
license.bea
file.
In some cases, however, you must update the
license.bea file separately, independent of the
installation process. For example, you must update your license file if at least one of the following
is true:
z You purchase a product for production use and you receive a production license to replace
your development license.
z You want to upgrade production systems to a new release of the software. After installing
the current release of the software, you must upgrade your license to the current version.
To do so, see “Upgrading Licenses from Previous Software Releases” on page 6-6.
z You purchase a new release of a product you are already using in production and you want
to use both the old and the new releases in production on the same system. For example,
you are currently using WebLogic Server 8.1, you purchase WebLogic Server 9.2, and you
want to use both releases on the same system.
z You purchase additional BEA software with production licenses, and you want to add the
production licenses for the new software to the production licenses for software already in
production use on your system.
z You want to consolidate existing production licenses for different component products onto
a single machine.
z You want to transfer existing production licenses from one machine to another machine
with a different IP address.
In each of these cases, you will receive a new license file from BEA, the contents of which must
be included in the
license.bea file in the target BEA Home directory. To facilitate the license
update process, BEA provides an
UpdateLicense utility that merges the new license into the
existing license in the BEA Home directory, and deletes any expired or duplicate entries.