You must have a license for IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine and
licenses for all the product sources to use with Rational Publishing Engine.
Overview
- You are not required to install a license server on every computer
that is using Rational Publishing Engine.
Install the license server on one server and distribute license keys
to the Rational Publishing Engine users.
- Rational Publishing Engine licenses
are floating or user-based. Node-locked licenses cannot be used.
- Temporary licenses are available for evaluation purposes, but
cannot be used in conjunction with permanent user-based or floating
licenses.
- Local document generation consumes one license at a time and remote
document generation consumes two licenses at a time.
License requirements for the Web Services application
Rational Publishing Engine licenses
can either be floating user-based licenses or authorized user-based
licenses. The Rational Publishing Engine Web Services application can
consume floating licenses, but not authorized licenses. If only authorized
user-based licenses are purchased, the Web Services application cannot
use them, and document generation fails.
Example
You have 10 floating keys. With
a floating key, users can share licenses from a common pool. Five
users are report designers, who are assigned the task of authoring
and creating document templates. 10 other users can generate documents
based on the templates that are provided to them by the report authors.
These 15 users share ten license keys.
A license key is consumed
in the following scenarios:
- Whenever a remote document generation is in progress
- Whenever a client application is open
Note: Multiple Document Studio instances or local document generations
started on the same computer consume a single license. Remote document
generation consumes a second license.
You are prompted to enter
a license key to connect to the license server in both these instances.
See
Connecting to a license server.