License Manager

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When you run Rapid Install to install your Applications, one of the prompts asks if you are licensed for the product that you are installing. It goes ahead and installs everything because sometimes you have to apply an odd patch for a product that you are not using, but it makes sure that it licenses those products that you are licensed for. It is one of the nice things that it does for you.

If you are doing your implementation in phases (Financial module now, HR module later) or you are just bringing functionality on as needed, you will have to tell Oracle that you are now licensed for the new products as you bring them on. Further, if you are adding languages or country specific functionality after your initial installation, you will have to license them as you bring them into your system. All of these are done by means of License Manager. It is also a handy utility that allows you to review the products that you are licensed for.

To run License Manager, you need to be at a command prompt and type either adlicmgr.sh, for a UNIX-based environment, or adlicmgr.cmd, for a Windows environment. However, that cannot be the first step. Because of the way that Oracle E-Business Suite is packaged and priced, your company's first step needs to be to contact your sales representative and become legally licensed for the module or modules that you are installing. Starting to use each module is like starting to use an entirely new piece of software; therefore, each module is licensed as if it were a stand-alone product. You installed everything when you ran your initial installation, but you will not be able to use it until it is licensed. If you do not have the legal license to back up a License Manager license, you will have potential fines and law suits if you end up under investigation down the road. This is true for not only additional modules, but also adding additional country specific functionality or languages.

Once you start your License Manager session, you will be walked through the session by a series of screens. The first screen requests your APPS username and password as well as your two-task or local (this would likely be the same as your SID). I'm not sure why License Manager wants your apps username; it installs as APPS by default and changing this would be not only difficult and time consuming, it could potentially result in many of the other utilities not functioning correctly.

The following screen allows you to either license new products or review your current set of licenses. Reviewing your current licenses occasionally is a good thing to do, if only to get a better understanding of what products you have licensed and what products Oracle has brought into your installation as shared because of interdependencies.

If you simply want to review what is installed, choose the Review selection to review your current licensed products option on the first screen. The following screen lists all of the products, country specific functionalities, and languages that your installation is currently licensed for. License Manager allows you to save this listing as a text file on your system or print it out in hard copy.

Choosing "Update your Current Licensed Products" will take you through additional screens similar to ones that you will have gone through in your Rapid Install session. This screen will be for the Orderable Products. You can either choose to license product families or individual products. The two tabs on the screen allow you either functionality. Even if you choose to license a product family, it is often a good idea to look at the licensable products tab to see what licensing the new products bring with them. This will give you a better idea what is dependent on what. On the licensable products screen, the products that you already have licensed are grayed out so you cannot license them again and the ones that you are licensing through this session are marked with a check mark.

This concludes what needs to be done to just license additional products. You can skip through the ensuing screens by clicking next and finish at the end. This is not, however, the end of what you need to do to ensure that your new products are functional. You will be able to use the products, but they will, in all likelihood, not be at the proper patch level; they may need additional setup steps to make them useful from the functional (nontechnical) perspective. Start by patching the module to the latest minipack patch level and work from there to ensure that you are working on the most stable environment possible. Additionally, although this may also be part of installing the latest patch, you will want to generate files through ADADMIN. Even if the patch generated files in its G driver, you will want to run through generating all files again. This will ensure that all of your screens, libraries, and functionality will be available when the new module is accessed.

If you are licensing country specific functionality, you will be presented with the same initial screens through License Manager. You do not want to choose anything on the Orderable Products screen, but click next until you get to the Country Specific Functionalities screen. It is a checkbox-driven screen that allows you to choose as many additional countries as you are licensed for. Once functionality is installed into the application, it cannot be uninstalled, so be sure of what countries you are dealing with. Once you have all of the required countries chosen, you can click next until you are through all screens, and finish to end your License Manager session.

Make sure that you install any patches relevant to your installed products and newly licensed functionalities combinations as well as generate forms files and libraries to ensure the functionality of the new functionalities. You can search on Metalink to find country specific patches for any modules that you are licensed for and for any new functionalities that you have just licensed.

The final thing that can be done in License Manager is to add languages. Apps currently supports over 30 different languages, with more being added frequently. The language installed by default is American English. If that is not the language that you need for your implementation or if you need additional languages as a multinational, multiethnic organization, you can license the product to be used in two, ten, or all of the current languages.

Again, you will go through the previous screens until you get to the Languages screen. You will be shown, first the base language and all additionally installed languages. If you click on the Select Languages button, you will be presented with a screen of available languages. You will need to highlight each language you wish to add and click the button with the > to add it to the selected languages side. If you choose one by mistake, you can highlight it in the selected languages side of the window and click the < button to move it back. Click "OK" when finished to take you back to the base window.

If you need to change the base language of the application, you can do so now. Verify that all languages chosen are compatible with your application and your database character set. You are finished adding languages and can safely click next until you come to the finish screen. Click finish and you are done with the License Manager session.

Now, you may need to convert character sets. If you need to convert, it is best to contact Oracle Support on Metalink, log an iTAR, and get help with this part of your job. They will tell you the most flexible character set that you can use and how to make sure that everything gets converted.

Now there is something that you will have to remember. Just because you have licensed the product does not mean that you are ready to use it. There may be additional steps needed to complete the setup. You may need to perform other product-specific steps to make the products function properly. It may be that you have just licensed one additional module, but you may have to perform setup on more than one, as Oracle licenses the modules that it knows have shared dependencies. These are things that you will need to keep in mind when bringing new functionality into the organization.



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Oracle 11i E-Business Suite from the front lines
Oracle 11i E-Business Suite from the Front Lines
ISBN: 0849318610
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 122

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