This is different of typical Line of Business in ERP applications, where employees have a rather persistent role and use applications of same type all day. In the meantime the product evolved incredibly in capabilities, spread popularity and the licensing system was adjusted to the usage model of customers in software projects. What I did, I created physical data models and entity relationship diagrams.

To be frank, I do not remember how it was licensed, as I received it preinstalled on a Desktop PC with a MS Windows, to create data models. When I remember back, starting to use SAP PowerDesigner, back in 1993 it was just a small product under a different name shipped on two 720k 3.5 inch floppy disks – (for those who re old enough to remember this) and licensing was also different at that time. The majority of functions are also applicable for SYSAM in SAP Adaptive Enterprise Platform.Ī short reasoning – do I really need to explain licensing? The last one will cover configuration topics of license manager, log files and retrieving information on license usage.The second will cover installation topics and license generation / upgrade.This (first) one will cover the license types, requirements, and how to read a license.This is the first chapter in a series of 3 blog posts I intend to publish. In addition I recommend to read the overview on installation tasks in this blog post on PowerDesigner Installation written by Peter Bilgnaut. Please make sure you are always on the most recent documentation set. You have read the main installation instructions of SAP PowerDesigner. Also in sense of an economic use of SAP PowerDesigner it contains some to many users little known utilities that help discovering the usage of the SAP PowerDesigner.įirst I did consider creating a FAQ list to SYSAM daemon but I decided to create this in a blog post / checklist style what needs to be done to operate SYSAM successful -because a FAQ will rather fulfill the need of an experienced user but the information here is needed by any level of experience. Some questions may occur in certain environments like hosted services, virtualized services, Terminal Server or other. The license manager SYSAM comes with the SAP PowerDesigner installation package and is a required utility daemon to be installed with the main product.

What I would like discuss in this blog post today is the license daemon controlling and distributing the licenses to all SAP PowerDesigner users. Introduction to Functions and Capabilities of SYSAM License Manager

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