If your team environment supports Floating license enforcement,
you can enable Floating licenses for your product and configure a
connection to obtain access to floating license keys.
Before you begin
Before enabling Floating license enforcement, you must obtain
the license server connection information from your administrator.
For details on license server, license key, and Rational® Common
Licensing administration, see the
IBM Rational License
Management Guide.
Procedure
To enable floating licenses as the license type for specified
packages and configure license server connections:
- In the IBM® Installation Manager for the Rational Software Delivery Platform,
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 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 licenses in the list determines
the order in which your package attempts to obtain access to license
keys for a given licensed package.
- Click Finish.
Results
The Manage Licenses wizard indicates whether the floating
licenses configuration is 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.