Reading the License File

Reading the License File

You may need to retrieve the content from the mz.license file in text. To do so, run the following command:

cat mz.license

Below are some important information in the license file

<license name="<CUSTOMER-NAME>_<ProductVersion>_<LicenseType>" product="mz"> <criteria attribute="database.type" value="multi"/> <criteria attribute="expiration.date" value="2030-01-01 23:59"/> <criteria attribute="license.type" value="PROD"/> <criteria attribute="multi.host.enabled" value="true"/> <criteria attribute="customer.name" value="Acme Corp"/> <licenseditem identity="pf:mz.ultra.avro"/> <licenseditem identity="pf:mz.decoder_avro"/> ...

Line 1 - license name consists of the customer name, product version and license type.
Line 3 - expiration.date is the date of license expiration.
Line 4 - license.type has either the PROD or DEMO as the value.

  • A system with the DEMO license type will stop running when the license expiration date is reached.

  • A system with the PROD license type will continue running when the license expiration date is reached. There will be license violation messages in the System Logs.

  • The license file will be checked during platform start up and at least once per day to determine the validity of the current license.

Line 7 and beyond

  • licenseditem is the licensed items included in the product license.