Step 5: Upgrading Your TIBCO Products and Renewing Your Subscriptions or Maintenance Term

Upgrading Your TIBCO Products

When you upgrade to a new release of your TIBCO product, you need to configure the new releases with either the URL of the TIBCO Activation Service (for remote activation) or location of the license file (for local activation) that was used to activate the previous release, and then start the product. Consult the documentation for your TIBCO products for details on configuring them for activation.

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

Renewing Your Subscription or Maintenance Contract

Note: The entitlement end date in your license is set to the end date of your current subscription or maintenance contract. You can determine the entitlement end date to your TIBCO product in the license portal. In addition, your TIBCO product will begin posting entities to its log starting at 90 days before your entitlement ends.

You are encouraged to renew your subscription or maintenance contract with TIBCO well in advance of the contract end date to avoid the shutdown of your TIBCO product on that date.

If you choose not to renew your maintenance contract, you will need to generate a new license file in the TIBCO License portal that will include an additional 2 year entitlement, and continue to do so well in advance of future entitlement end dates.

Immediately after you renew your subscription or maintenance contract with TIBCO, you must generate a new license that includes the entitlement end date of your new contract. To generate a new license, navigate to the license portal, and perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Devices >Devices, and click the name of the device you used to create your previous license.

  2. Click Action > Map Entitlements, and enter a value of 1 in the Qty to add field for each entitlement you wish to include in the new license. Then click Save.

  3. Click Action > Download Capability Response to download the license file to your computer.

  4. Copy the new license file to the operating environment where you copied the previous license file.

    • In-product Activation: Consult your TIBCO product documentation for details on configuring your TIBCO product for activation with your license file.

    • TIBCO Activation Service: Upload your new license file to the same instance of TIBCO Activation Service as you did for your previous license file. To upload the new license file, use the following command: 

      tib-activate license upload

      For more information, see License Command.

      You do NOT need to restart your TIBCO Activation Service instance after uploading the new license file, nor reconfigure and restart your TIBCO products that were activated with that instance.