If your team environment supports Floating license enforcement,
you can activate Floating licenses for your product and configure
a connection to obtain access to floating license keys.
About this task
To activate floating licenses as the license type for specified
packages and configure license server connections, complete the following
steps:
Procedure
- Start IBM® Installation Manager.
- On the Start page, click Manage
Licenses.
- On the Manage License page, select
an installed product package, select the Configure Floating
license support option, and click Next.
- On the Licenses page, read the license
agreement for the selected package. If you agree to the terms of all
of the license agreements, click I accept the terms of
the license agreements and click Next to
continue.
- On the Floating License Support page,
select the Enable Floating license enforcement and
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
What to do next
Now, when you start the activated product, a connection is
created to the license server to obtain a license key from the pool
of available floating license keys.