Managing licenses for Jazz Team Server-based products

You can use the administrative web interface to manage and monitor client access licenses (CALs).

There are several types of licenses: client access licenses, floating client access licenses, and Rational® Common Licensing token service. In the deployment topology diagrams below you can see where the licenses are installed.

With a role-based licensing scheme, when you purchase a CAL for a particular role, you will have read, write, and comment access to some or all of the capabilities of the Change and Configuration Management, Quality Management, and Requirements Management applications.

Fully distributed enterprise topology example showing client access license installation.

Floating CALs are managed as a pool that can be shared by multiple users who can individually acquire a license when they need it, if one is available from the pool. The following diagram shows a Jazz™ Team Server application acting as a dedicated floating CAL server; you can also use an existing Jazz Team Server application as a floating license server. For more information, see Floating client access license management overview.

Fully distributed enterprise topology example showing floating client access license installation.

The Rational Common Licensing token service is an extension of the Jazz Team Server that allows token requests to be forwarded to a Rational License key server. You install license tokens on the Rational License Key server, and a Jazz Team Server application requests and distributes those tokens as clients request them. As with floating CALs, you can use an existing Jazz Team Server application or set one up as a dedicated license server. For more information, see Floating client access license management overview and Setting up the Rational Common Licensing token service keys.

Fully distributed enterprise topology example showing Rational Common Licensing token service installation.


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