If your team environment supports floating license enforcement,
including token licensing,
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 main page, click Manage Licenses.
- On the Manage License page, select an install 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
- 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.