Rational Synergy is licensed using IBM® Rational Common Licensing. For information about Rational Common Licensing, see the Rational Common Licensing information center.
Rational Synergy supports the Floating, Named-User Floating, and Token license types. For a description of license types, see “License type definitions” in the Rational Common Licensing information center.
For Rational Synergy users, the login name is seen as the user of the token license. To reserve Named-User licenses for specific users, see “Setting up the options file” in the Rational Common Licensing information center.
When configuring the options file for Rational Synergy and Rational Change, it is not necessary to put the default administrative users (ccm_root, ChangeAdmin, and csuser) in the INCLUDE list. The license file includes additional floating licenses for these users. Do not assign these licenses to other users because the products might fail.
When you start Rational Synergy, it contacts the License Manager to request a license. Rational Synergy uses information that was provided during the server installation process to find the License Manager. The following example describes how licenses are configured during installation. The example assumes IBM Rational Common Licensing was installed before installing Rational Synergy.
The $CCM_HOME/etc/system_info.txt file or TELELOGIC_LICENSE_FILE or LM_LICENSE_FILE system environment variable stores the location of the license server. The location is specified as port@license-server-name, that is, the port and computer on which the license manager is installed.
The location can also contain a comma-separated list of three port@host specifiers denoting a three-server redundant configuration. For example, port1@host1,port2@host2,port3@host3 specifies a three-server redundant configuration with servers on host1, host2, and host3.
Rational Synergy searches for license servers and license files in the following order:
If you move the license manager to a different system, you must edit the $CCM_HOME/etc/system_info.txt file or update the TELELOGIC_LICENSE_FILE or LM_LICENSE_FILE system environment variable to contain the new value.