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.
About this task
Before you activate floating license enforcement, you must
obtain the license server connection information from your administrator.
Procedure
- Start IBM® Installation
Manager.
- On the main page, click Manage Licenses
- Select the appropriate Rational® Programming
Patterns package and click Configure Floating license support.
- Click Next
- On the Licenses page, accept the
license agreement for the selected package
- On the Floating License Support page,
select the Enable Floating license enforcement.
- Configure one or more license server connections by following
these steps:
- 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
are displayed.
- Enter the host name of the license server in the Name field.
- (Optional) 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
- (Optional) You can click Test Connection to
confirm that the connection information is correct and that the server
is available.
- Click OK.
- Click Next.
- (Optional) 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.
Results
The
Manage Licenses wizard indicates
whether the floating licenses configuration is successful.
When
you next open the enabled product, a connection is created to the
license server to obtain a license key from the pool of available
floating license keys.