Activating floating licenses

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

  1. Start IBM® Installation Manager.
  2. On the main page, click Manage Licenses
  3. Select the appropriate Rational® Programming Patterns package and click Configure Floating license support.
  4. Click Next
  5. On the Licenses page, accept the license agreement for the selected package
  6. On the Floating License Support page, select the Enable Floating license enforcement.
  7. Configure one or more license server connections by following these steps:
    1. Click an empty field in the Servers table or click Add.
    2. 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.
    3. Enter the host name of the license server in the Name field.
    4. (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.
    5. For redundant server environments, enter the names and ports (if required) for the secondary and tertiary servers
    6. (Optional) You can click Test Connection to confirm that the connection information is correct and that the server is available.
    7. Click OK.
  8. Click Next.
  9. (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.
  10. 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.


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