If your team environment supports Floating license enforcement,
you can activate Floating licenses for your product and configure a connection
to obtain access to floating license keys.
To activate floating licenses as the license type for specified packages
and configure license server connections, complete the following steps:
- Start IBM® Installation Manager.
- On the Start page, click Manage
Licenses.
- On the Manage License page, select a installed
product package, select the Configure Floating license support option,
and click Next.
- On the Licenses page, read the license agreement
for the selected package. If you agree to the terms of all of the license
agreements, click I accept the terms of the license agreements and
click Next to continue.
- On the Floating License Support page, select
the Enable Floating license enforcement and configure
one or more license server connections:
- Click an empty field in the Servers table
or click the Add button.
- If your administrator provided you with information for a redundant
server environment, click the Redundant Server button. Fields for the primary, secondary, and tertiary server names and
ports appear.
- Enter the host name of the license server in the Name field.
- Enter a value in the Port field
for environments where a firewall is used. Do not assign a value to this port
unless your administrator instructs you to do so.
- For redundant server environments, enter the names and ports
(if required) for the secondary and tertiary servers.
- You can click the Test Connection button
to confirm that the connection information is correct and that the server
is available.
- Click OK.
- Click Next.
- Configure the license usage order for your
shell shared or custom packages. The order of licenses in the list determines
the order in which your package attempts to obtain access to license keys
for a given licensed package.
- Click Finish.
Now, when you start the activated product, a connection is created
to the license server to obtain a license key from the pool of available floating
license keys.