If your team environment supports Floating licenses, you
can enable Floating licenses for your product with a permanent license
key.
Before you begin
Before enabling Floating licenses, you must obtain the license
server connection information from your administrator.
About this task
You configure a connection to one or more license servers
to obtain access to floating license keys installed on a license server.
Procedure
To enable Floating licenses as the license type for specified
packages:
- In the IBM® Installation Manager,
click .
- Select a version of a package. Click Configure
Floating license support. If this option is not enabled,
your product does not support Floating licenses. See the product information
for details about licenses.
- Click Next.
- Click Enable Floating license enforcement.
- Configure one or more license server connections.
- 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 shown.
- Enter the host name of the license server in the Name field.
- 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 (as required) for the secondary and tertiary servers.
- You can click Test
Connection to confirm that the connection information
is correct and that the server is available.
- Click OK.
- Click Next.
- 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. The license keys
are from the pool of available floating license keys.
- Click Finish.
Results
The Manage Licenses wizard indicates whether the floating
licenses are configured.
What to do next
When you open the enabled product, a connection is created
to the license server. The connection is used to obtain a license
key from the pool of available floating license keys.