Buying snapshot
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| Decision point | What Qlik states |
|---|---|
How to buy | Contact a local Qlik sales office. The same route applies to Qlik Compose and Qlik Enterprise Manager. |
Trying it first | The Qlik Replicate product page offers "Try for Free", "Get a Demo" and "Take the Tour" links. A license can be of type evaluation or permanent. |
Deployment options | Qlik Cloud Data Integration, a Qlik-managed Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service (eiPaaS), or Qlik Data Integration, a client-managed solution installed on-premises or as a virtual machine image in any location you choose. |
License delivery | After the order is complete and a deal is signed, Qlik emails a license.txt file, usually within a day of receiving the order. |
DEV, QA and production | Qlik says you can apply the same Qlik Replicate license on all three environments. |
How the Replicate license is scoped
You buy Replicate through a local Qlik sales office, so plan the scope of the license you ask for. Qlik's licensing article says a license lets you run tasks using the endpoints specified: if you buy an Oracle endpoint, you can run tasks using an Oracle endpoint.
Source and target endpoints. The license.txt file lists the source endpoints and the target endpoints the customer purchased.
Hosts. It names the hosts where Replicate will run. If this field is blank, any host can run it.
Additional features. A features field lists additional features on the license.
Expiration and version. The file holds the expiration date (if any), the Replicate version and the issue date.
Replicate's product page lists platforms to load, ingest, migrate and synchronize data across, including RDBMS such as Oracle, SQL, DB2, MySQL, Sybase and PostgreSQL; data warehouses such as Azure Synapse, Snowflake, Exadata, Teradata, IBM Netezza, Vertica and Pivotal; streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka, Confluent, Azure Event hubs and AWS Kinesis; SAP and Salesforce; and mainframe platforms IMS/DB, DB2 z/OS, RMS and VSAM. Qlik points to its support matrix for the complete list.
Licenses and steps beyond Replicate
Enterprise Manager has its own licenses. Qlik Enterprise Manager has one license for Monitoring and another for Analytics. The Replicate license gives general access, but not use of Qlik Enterprise Manager or Qlik Compose.
Monitored servers need valid licenses. To add Qlik Replicate servers to Qlik Enterprise Manager monitoring, each needs a valid license; otherwise you get an "Unauthorized" error.
Changing the license. You can modify or extend a license directly in the Qlik Replicate UI, or apply licenses to Replicate servers programmatically with the Enterprise Manager API call PutServerLicense.
Keeping the license file. If you lose the license email, you can log on to the Qlik Support Portal and open the original case, or find the license in the product.
Our take
If you plan central monitoring of several Replicate servers, put Qlik Enterprise Manager and every source and target endpoint into the same sales request; a Replicate license alone will not let you run tasks on endpoints it does not name or add servers to monitoring without valid licenses.