If your team environment supports Floating license enforcement,
you can enable Floating licenses for your product with a permanent
license key. You then configure a connection to one or more license
servers to obtain access to floating license keys installed on a license
server.
Before you begin
Before you enable Floating license enforcement, you must obtain
the license server connection information from your administrator.
For
details about license servers, see Setting up a license server.
Procedure
To enable Floating licenses as the license type for specified
packages:
- In the Installation Manager, click .
- Select a version of a package and then select Configure
Floating license support. If this option is not enabled,
your product does not support Floating licenses. See the Installation
Guide for information about licenses.
- Click Next.
- Click Enable Floating license enforcement.
- Configure one or more license server connections.
- Click an empty field in the Servers table or click Add.
- If your administrator provided you with information
for a redundant server environment, click Redundant Server.
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 (as 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 packages in the list determines the
order in which the components in your installed packages attempt to
obtain access to license keys. The license keys are from the pool
of available floating license keys.
- Click Finish.
Results
The Manage Licenses wizard indicates whether the floating
licenses configuration was successful.
When you open the enabled
product, a connection is created to the license server. The connection
is used to obtain a license key from the pool of available floating
license keys.