If your team environment supports floating license enforcement,
including token licensing, you can activate floating licenses for
your product and configure a connection to access floating license
keys.
Procedure
- Start IBM® Installation Manager.
- On the Start page, click .
- On the Manage License page, select
an installed product package, select Configure Floating
license support, and click Next.
- On the Licenses page, read the license
agreement for the selected package. If you agree to the terms 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 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 are displayed.
- In the Name field, enter the
host name of the license server.
- 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, as required, for the secondary and tertiary servers.
- Optional: 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.
What to do next
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.