Enabling Floating licenses

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 you begin
Before enabling Floating license enforcement, you must obtain the license server connection information from your administrator.
About this task
To enable Floating licenses as the license type for specified packages:
  1. In the Installation Manager, click File > Open > Manage Licenses.
  2. Select a version of a package and then select Configure Floating license support button. If this option is not enabled, your product does not support Floating licenses. See the Installation Guide for information about licenses.
  3. Click Next.
  4. Click Enable Floating license enforcement.
  5. Configure one or more license server connections.
    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 appear.
    3. Enter the host name of the license server in the Name field.
    4. 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 (as required) for the secondary and tertiary servers.
    6. You can click the Test Connection button to confirm that the connection information is correct and that the server is available.
    7. Click OK.
  6. Click Next.
  7. 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.
  8. Click Finish.
Results
The Manage Licenses wizard indicates whether or not the floating licenses configuration was successful.
What to do next
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.