• Product Name: VisiBroker
• Product Version: 8.5
• Product Component: Licensing
• Platform: All

What are the steps to setup two or more licenses but to use a common VisiBroker installation?

Steps to setup and register different licenses using a shared installation of VisiBroker:

1. Install VisiBroker in a folder(say /opt/MicroFocus/VisiBroker) and do not register it.

2. Copy the complete content of the "var" and "license" folders from the VisiBroker installation to a user folder say: /home/MicroFocus/VisiBroker1.

3. Copy lmadm and lmadm.config from bin folder of main VisiBroker installation.

4. Now, the following will be the contents of /home/MicroFocus/VisiBroker1 with the subfolders:

bin:
  lmadm
  vbroker.sh (vbroker.bat for windows) ---> to be created in step 5
  lmadm.config ---> to be edited in step 6

license(folder and its contents):

var(folder and its contents):

5. Create, set execute permission and run the following script file named vbroker.sh:

export VBROKER_INSTALL_DIR=/opt/MicroFocus/VisiBroker
export VBROKERDIR=/home/MicroFocus/VisiBroker1
export VBROKER_ADM=${VBROKERDIR}/var/vbroker/adm
export OSAGENT_PORT=14000
export PATH=${VBROKERDIR}/bin:${VBROKER_INSTALL_DIR}/bin:${PATH}
export BES_LIC_DIR=${VBROKERDIR}/var
export BES_LIC_DEFAULT_DIR=${VBROKERDIR}/license
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${VBROKER_INSTALL_DIR}/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}

Note: $VBROKER_INSTALL_DIR points to the folder of the main VisiBroker installation.

6. Edit the following entries in the bin/lmadm.config file:

# Set the product install root, i.e.set it to $VBROKER_INSTALL_DIR
set installRoot=/opt/MicroFocus/VisiBroker

# The product license, set it to use user folder, i.e. VBROKERDIR
vmprop borland.enterprise.licenseDefaultDir=/home/MicroFocus/VisiBroker1/license
vmprop borland.enterprise.licenseDir=/home/MicroFocus/VisiBroker1/var

7. Now, follow the steps 2-6 to create another user folder(say /home/MicroFocus/VisiBroker2) and so on for more users to register the licenses.

9. Then, register two licenses in these two folders(/home/MicroFocus/VisiBroker1 and /home/MicroFocus/VisiBroker2) with lmadm tool(from bin folder).
    i.e. ./lmadm -i console

10. Run "./lmadm -i console" again and choose option "2 - List all licenses" to verify that the licenses have been enabled. 
 
11. In the first user folder, you need to invoke vbroker.sh of /home/MicroFocus/VisiBroker1/bin to set the VisiBroker environment and in the second user folder, invoke /home/Borland/VisiBroker2/bin/vbroker.sh and now both of these users will be using two licenses with shared VisiBroker installation.

You can follow the above steps 2-6 to setup more users with different licenses but sharing one common VisiBroker installation.