If your team environment supports Floating license enforcement,
you can enable Floating licenses for your IBM® Rational® Software Development Platform product with a trial or 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 enabling Floating license enforcement, you must obtain the
license server connection information from your administrator.
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 the Configure
Floating license support button.
- Click Next.
- Click the Enable Floating license enforcement button.
- Configure one or more license server connections.
- Click an empty field in the Servers table
or click Add.
- 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.
- (Optional) You can click the Test Connection button
to confirm that the connection information is correct and that the server
is available.
- Click OK.
- If your system administrator has given you the host names of
additional license servers, repeat steps a through e above to add each server.
For a redundant servers configuration, where three servers are used, enter
each host name in this format: "hostname1", "hostname2", "hostname3",
where hostname is the name of the server. For each port number, enter
accordingly: "host1port#", "host2port#", "host3port#", where # is the port
number.
- 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 license keys for a license.
- Click Finish.
The Manage Licenses wizard indicates whether or not the floating licenses
configuration was successful.
Now, 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.