Information and procedures in Client setup for Rational Team software apply to all Rational products included in IBM Rational Common Licensing, except tools built on the Eclipse platform. (See Client setup for Rational Software Delivery Platform software for information on supporting Floating licenses for IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform products built on the Eclipse platform.)
The tables below describe common client licensing tasks and direct you to the correct topics for instructions. If you are upgrading your environment, see Upgrading license keys.
Table 1 directs you to procedures for entering, importing, and requesting licenses for your Rational products.
Task | Scenario | Procedure |
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Get your permanent (or Fixed Term License) license
key. Fixed Term License means the license key has an expiration date built into it. |
You have purchased a authorized user, floating, or named-user floating licenses. | Use your Proof of Entitlement certificate to request
permanent license keys from Rational License Key Center,
the Rational Web-based
license key management tool. See Requesting license keys for more information about the Rational License Key Center. |
Get your evaluation license key. | You want to evaluate a Rational product. | Your IBM sales
representative sends you or your license administrator an evaluation
license key. You either install a authorized user key on your client or point your client to a Rational license server that your license administrator has set up for you. |
Install authorized user license keys on your client. | You received a authorized user license key. | Use License Key Administrator (LKAD) wizard to
install your authorized user license keys. The LKAD wizard starts
at the end of product installation. If it does not start, open LKAD
from the Start menu under the Rationalfolder.
See Installing authorized user license keys for more information. |
Configure your client to request floating licenses from the license server. | Your license administrator has set up a Rational license server to serve floating license keys to clients. | Get the name of the license server from your administrator. Then use License Key Administrator (LKAD) wizard to specify the license server. The LKAD wizard starts at the end of the product installation. If it does not, open LKAD from the Start menu under the Rational folder. |
Task | Procedure |
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Change the order in which Rational products use licenses. | Changing license usage order. |
Move or return license keys. | Returning or moving keys for client users. |
Use license keys for home or travel. | Using license keys for home use or travel. |
Configure the UNIX® system clients. | See the Rational product or the UNIX system installation guide. |
To configure the UNIX system license server for Windows® clients. | Configuring a UNIX system license server. |