Before installing license keys

Tasks to license your IBM Rational® products built on the Eclipse platform.
About this task

Table 1 directs you to procedures for entering, importing, and requesting licenses for your IBM products.

Table 2 provides links to advanced user tasks that you can perform. For example, you can change clients or you want your client to request an IBM Rational Software Modeler license before an IBM Rational Software Architect license in cases where there are shared components.

Table 1. Getting started with Rational Common Licensing
Task Scenario Procedure
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 floating licenses. Use your Proof of Entitlement certificate to request permanent license keys from License Key Center, the IBM Rational Web-based license key management tool.

See Requesting license keys for more information about License Key Center.

Get your trial license key. You want to evaluate an Rational product. Download a copy of the product software from IBM. The download includes a trial license key for either 30 or 60 days, depending on the product.
Install permanent license keys on your client. You have purchased and downloaded a product enablement kit for your trial product. Use the Manage Licenses wizard in the IBM Installation Manager to install your permanent license keys. The Manage Licenses wizard imports the new license key and agreement from the product enablement kit.

See Installing authorized user license keys for more information.

Note: You cannot use Installation Manager to manage licenses for Rational Team software.
Configure your client to request floating licenses from the license server. Your license administrator has set up an IBM Rational license server to serve floating license keys to clients. Get the name of the license server from your administrator. Then use the Manage Licenses wizard in the Installation Manager to specify the license server.
Table 2. Additional client tasks
Task Procedure
Change the order in which Rational products use licenses. Changing license usage order.
Move or return license keys. Moving keys for client users.
Configure UNIX® system clients. See the Rational product or UNIX system installation guide.
To configure a UNIX system license server for Windows® clients. Configuring a UNIX system license server.

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