I've Received My License File, Now What?

• There are a few possible distribution methods for obtaining a Senzing license
  • You purchased a Senzing license online yourself, download your license file from your account
  • Your organisations procurement department purchased a license on your behalf and it was sent directly to them for distribution
  • Senzing directly sent you a license file 
• Once you obtain the license file, make it available on the intended machine. For example, place it in the root of your Senzing project folder, subsequently referred to as <project_root>
  
  
• Modify the <project_root>/etc/G2Module.ini file, under the [PIPELINE] stanza add a new key value pair of LICENSEFILE=<project_root>/g2.lic

• Save G2Module.ini
  
  
• The next time you run any utilities or initialize the engine in your own application using this project and G2Module.ini the new license file will be effective
  
  
• You can check the license file details with the license() API call or running G2Loader in test mode with the -T argument

g2@localhost python]$ ./G2Command.py

Initializing engine...

Welcome to the G2 shell. Type help or ? to list commands.

(g2) license

G2 license:
{"customer": "Senzing Internal - 10M", "contract": "Senzing Internal", "issueDate": "2020-03-16", "licenseType": "DEV", "licenseLevel": "STANDARD", "billing": "MONTHLY", "expireDate": "2020-09-20", "recordLimit": 10000000}

(g2) quit
Ending Terminal.

g2@localhost python]$ python3 G2Loader.py -T
Starting G2 with ini file: /home/g2/senzing/etc/G2Project.ini

Validating /home/g2/senzing/python/demo/sample/sample_person.csv ...
Validating /home/g2/senzing/python/demo/sample/sample_company.csv ...
System Resources:
 Physical cores : 8
 Logical cores : 16
 Total Memory : 62.6GB
 Available Memory: 46.7GB

Resource requested:
 maxThreadsPerProcess : 16
 numThreads : 4
 Minimum recommended cores : 2
 Minimum recommended memory: 4.5GB

Performing database performance tests...
 198770 records inserted in 3000ms with an avg of 0.0ms per insert

****LICENSE****
 Version: 1.14.7 (2020-03-26)
 Customer: Senzing Internal - 10M
 Type: DEV
 Expiration: 2020-09-20
 Records: 10000000
 Contract: Senzing Internal
***************

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Testing /home/g2/senzing/python/demo/sample/sample_person.csv ... 
 press control-c at any time to end test
 dropping to single thread due to small file size
...
...

Warn

This article pertains to deploying Senzing natively on a host system and not within containerized demos such as on Senzing GitHub. Deploying a Senzing license within the GitHub assets is documented therein.