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 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. If this button is not
enabled, your product does not support Floating licenses. See the
Installation Guide for information about licenses.
- 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 the Add button.
- If your administrator provided you with information
for a redundant server environment, click the Redundant
Server button. Fields for the primary,
secondary, and tertiary server names and ports appear.
- 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 the Test Connection button
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 packages in the list determines
the order in which the components in your installed packages attempt
to obtain access to license keys from the pool of available floating
license keys.
- 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.