Step 4: Maintaining Activations

After your TIBCO products are activated and operating normally, they are re-validated regularly. Therefore, ensure that your instance of TIBCO Activation Service is always reachable by your TIBCO products to avoid potential disruption.

Note: You must ensure that your instance of TIBCO Activation Service is always running and reachable by your TIBCO products. If it becomes unreachable, you will have 7 days to reestablish connectivity, after which your TIBCO products activated by that instance will shut down.

You must also monitor for changes to your IT infrastructure to ensure re-validation occurs uninterrupted.

You need to regenerate a license under the following scenarios:

  • Moving a TIBCO Activation Service instance: If you move an instance of TIBCO Activation Service to a new system, you must first delete the old license in the portal and then generate a new license bound to the new host's identifier.

    1. Delete the Old License: Navigate to Your Licenses in the TIBCO Licenses portal and delete the license associated with the old, deactivated instance.
    2. Obtain New Host ID: Install and configure the TIBCO Activation Service on the new system, and run tib-activate server hostids to obtain the new system's unique host identifier.
    3. Generate New License: In the TIBCO Licenses portal, click + New License, select Specific Host, and enter the new system's host identifier. Select your entitlements and click Create & Download License.
    4. Activate New Instance: Upload the new license file to the new TIBCO Activation Service instance using the tib-activate license upload command.
    5. Reconfigure Products: You need to reconfigure your TIBCO products that activated with the previous instance of TIBCO Activation Service with the URL of the new instance and restart those products.

    Note: Since TIBCO products need to be restarted when moving a TIBCO Activation Service instance, this task should only be performed during scheduled downtime.

  • Renewing your subscription: Immediately after you renew your subscription with TIBCO, you must generate a new license that includes the end date of your new subscription, and upload it to the same instance of TIBCO Activation Service as the license for the previous subscription. You do NOT need to reconfigure and restart your TIBCO products that were activated with that TIBCO Activation Service instance.

    Note: The user interface of your TIBCO product (for example: log file and console) will alert you well in advance of your entitlement expiration. You can also see when your entitlements end in the license generation portal.
    You are encouraged to renew your subscription with TIBCO well in advance of your entitlement end date to avoid the shutdown of your TIBCO product at subscription expiration.

You need NOT regenerate a license under the following scenarios:

  • Moving TIBCO products: If you move a TIBCO product to a new operating environment, you need not generate a new license for that product as long as the instance of TIBCO Activation Service that activated the product is still reachable by the product.

  • Upgrade to a new TIBCO product release: You need to configure the new release with the URL of the TIBCO Activation Service used to activate the previous release, and then start the product.

    Note: You can upgrade to a new release of a TIBCO product as long as you have an active subscription or maintenance contract for that product.