License Key and Siebel

Have you ever worked in your training environment and you got this error message ? License Key Expired ?

Of course one of the ways to solve this problem would be to simply change the system date , like who care training environment anyways ? However if you do want to solve it properly , here is how you do it .

Go to http://licensecodes.oracle.com/siebel.html ... by the way http://licensecodes.oracle.com/ is THE place to go for licenses related to Oracle products . On the top of the page you will license option for different version of Siebel . But thats not what we are looking for .. we need evaluation keys and thats right at the bottom ..

These All-inclusive license keys are provided here to grant you unrestricted access to all functionality in the Siebel CRM software and would work only for a specified period of time after which Oracle will update the site with new keys.Get the key for the version of the Siebel you are using and you are ready to go.In my case its Siebel 8.0 SEAs

If your license is not expired but you want to update the keys ? You can do this either using tools or Client .

In Client go to application Administration->License Keys and update the keys .

Or using tools : Help-> "Techical Support" where you will find a option to add/delete license key.

These All-inclusive license keys are provided here to grant you unrestricted access to all functionality in the Siebel CRM software and would work only for a specified period of time after which Oracle will update the site with new keys.

But what if I don’t have access to Tools and your license client is expired you ask ? No problemo. Since you are able to add these values in the application it means its basically stored in a Siebel table, which is S_APP_KEY.

INSERT INTO S_APP_KEY (

ROW_ID,CREATED,CREATED_BY,LAST_UPD,LAST_UPD_BY,MODIFICATION_NUM,CONFLICT_ID,APP_KEY,DB_LAST_UPD_SRC) VALUES (

'1','02-02-2010','0-1','02-02-2010','0-1',0,'0','9389 6228 3407 5195 8216 3205 6952 2490 8363 2040 3105 0790 5079 0528 0765 2807 2800 5090 0503 8002 8005 0790 5079 6176 2056 9883 638',

'MNH');

There will be slight variation when it comes to Siebel 7, because of the extra column DB_LAST_UPD_SRC. Just remove it and you should be fine.

And thats it for Siebel and License Key

Want to try out Siebel ? Here is How To - Part 1 (Download Essentials)

This part of Siebel Installation talks about how to get the all the pre-requisites ready

Pre-Requisites:-
1)Vm-Ware - This way we don't need to disturb your system . You can use a virtual PC for running Siebel.
2)Windows 2003 R2 or Windows 2008 ( There are lot of torrents available cant provide links for piracy reason- Try piratebay)

3)SQL Server/Oracle Enterprise ( I prefer for SQL server for testing because it goes easy on the system ) Again try Piratebay

4)DOWNLOAD SIEBEL

This is where many people get confused so i'm giving a screenshot demonstration of how to download Siebel.Oracle always provide it latest version of Siebel along with evaluation license.And why wouldn't they?They want more and more people to use and get comfortable with it. However oracle keeps posting these license keeps every month so basically we can use them as much as we want it .

Below are the steps to download Siebel

1. Go to the Oracle Delivery site at http://edelivery.oracle.com/ and choose language and click Continue
2. Fill in the information form and make sure to check yes for both Trial Licence use and Export Restrictions on this screen and click Continue . Normally if your company is oracle partner or your a registered user , it will not cause any issues here . If not register before proceeding to the step oracle support. Make sure you give the same First Name,Last Name and email id
3. Choose Siebel CRM as "Product Pack" and Platform as the OS in which you want to install Siebel and click Go
4. Now you will be listed with lot of download options . Select the Siebel Business Applications Media Pack for Microsoft Windows 32-bit and click continue . Now as you know there are 2 types of Siebel Applications SIA and SEA with SEA getting phased out after 8.1.1
5. Now you will be listed with various elements of the Siebel Installers - These are all jar files which have been zipped . you need atleast top 10 to install Siebel Server, Client and tools.NOTE:Use any download manager to do these downloads , I particularly like Free Download Manager (FDM) , Since it gives me a options to download a part of the zip file
6. If you want only Siebel Client and Tools Just download the packages marked below . If you want only just work on only one language you wont need all the jar files in the zip files (Refer ReadMe for what jar files you need).
7. After saving the zip files extract all of them in one folder . Don't worry about duplicate
8. Dont forget to download Microsoft image creator . This is the tool used to create the exe files for the installation

I will give out the details of how to use Microsoft image creator in the next blog post ..

P.S: Click on the images to zoom