WebSphere Portal Enable vs Extend
Archived post from 2011, recovered from my old blog. The technology described here is probably out of date. Original at the Internet Archive.
As you may have already known there are three types of WebSphere Portal licenses: Express, Enable and Extend. Once you have installed it you may find it difficult to determine what type of installation you deal with.
You would probably think about <PORTAL_ROOT>/bin/WPVersionInfo[.sh|.bat] script but unfortunately it will not tell you which product you’ve got installed. Having an installation images the portal was installed from does not help either because the same files are used for both Enable and Extent.
My own solution to quickly determine what product you have is to look into vpd.properties file. Its location depends on a platform:
- Windows: c:\windows\vpd.properties or c:\winnt\vpd.properties
- Linux, Solaris and HP-UX: /vpd.properties or /root/vpd.properties
- AIX: /usr/lib/objrepos/vpd.properties
In the file you will find either PortalEnableLicenseFiles or PortalExtendLicenseFiles: