Getting Data Direct license error on Development Environment setup

Question

Using .NET portal G6 sp1
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I have setup UI development environment. But I am getting datadirect license error on Debug->F5 in Visual studio.
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I get Database connectivity error. I checked PT config manager. It showed connection was good.
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Looking at PTSPY I found thus error:
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Error     OpenKernel.Database     .NET #1938     com.plumtree.openkernel.impl.db.DatabaseService     Exception acquiring database connection
System.InvalidOperationException: <b>The DataDirect ADO.NET Data Provider you are attempting to use is not licensed. If you would like to license a provider, please call 800-876-3101 or visit DataDirect at www.DataDirect-Technologies.com.</b> at DDInt.License.LicFile.UnlockProvider(String licFileName, Int32 version, LicProviderType providerType)
at DDInt.Common.CommonConnectionImpl.Open()
at DDTek.SQLServer.SQLServerConnection.Open()
at com.plumtree.openkernel.impl.db.DatabaseService.GetConnection() in e:\buildroot\Release\openkernel\2.0.x\opendb\build\x86\src\csharp\com\plumtree\openkernel\impl\db\DatabaseService.cs:line 1066
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Has anyone seen this error before?

Answer 1

Thank you for posting this response. This hit me last year and I could not for the life of me remember what we did to address this. Your note saved me gobs of time :)
In that spirit... I'm including some notes we made on seeing this sort of error on the remote tier when using the native API (installing the automation server on the remote tier so the API is accessible to our native portlets). Ideally someone else finds value in this.
P.S. - ignore the preachy/information tone on bits of this. It's written for our internal documentation, so I had to do it up all classy-like :P
Error: "Datadirect license file not found at configured location: [license file directory goes here]\DDplm.lic"
This error will occur if you use certain portions of the native API on the remote tier. When you use the native API you typically install the "automation server" (job processing server) - this is more appropriately thought of as a "light" portal install where the underlying portal logic / process libraries are installed and registered on the server, but the user interface portions are not available (EX: no web interface).
When you install the automation server and portal cross-platform database libraries are installed to abstract out behavior specific to MS SQL, Oracle, etc. The automation server installer does not, however, install 100% of the files used by the portal - specifically, the license file(s) required by this cross-platform database library.
To resolve this issue you must do two things.
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1. Copy the license files from the portal to the automation server
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* "Share" or terminal service over to a portal server. Navigate to the following (or close to it) directory path to find the license files generated by the portal installer.
\\MyPortalServer\d$\Program Files\plumtree\ptportal\6.0\bin\
* Find the folder "assemblies" and locate the file "DDplm.lic"
* Copy the "assemblies" folder to your automation server, matching the path/location
EX: \\MyAutomationServer\d$\Program Files\plumtree\ptportal\6.0\bin\
* You should now have the following folders/files installed on your automation server
\\MyAutomationServer\d$\Program Files\plumtree\ptportal\6.0\bin\assemblies\DDplm.lic
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2. Update the automation server config file to point to the DDplm.lic file
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Now that you have the appropriate license file copied to your automation server you must reference it within the core automation server config file. Recall that the automation server is really just a subset of the portal - the paths will then make more sense
* Navigate to your automation server's core configuration file
\\MyAutomationServer\d$\Program Files\Plumtree\settings\common\serverconfig.xml
* Open this file and find the entry for "database-connection:adonet-license-file-directory"
<setting name="database-connection:adonet-license-file-directory">
    <value xsi:type="xsd:string">[license file directory goes here]</value>
</setting>* Update the "serverconfig.xml" file to include the local absolute path to the folder that contains the license file ("DDplm.lic") you copied over in step (1). Your final entry should look similar to the following:
<setting name="database-connection:adonet-license-file-directory">
    <value xsi:type="xsd:string">D:\Program Files\plumtree\ptportal\6.0\bin\assemblies\</value>
</setting>
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3. There is no step 3
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That should be it.