Enabling floating licenses

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.

Before you begin

Before you activate floating license enforcement, you must obtain the license server connection information from your administrator.

For details about the license server, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/common-licensing/9.0.0?topic=configuring.

Procedure

  1. Start IBM® Installation Manager.
  2. On the Start page, click File > Open > Manage Licenses.
  3. On the Manage License page, select an installed product package, select Configure Floating license support, and click Next.
  4. 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.
  5. On the Floating License Support page, select Enable Floating license enforcement and configure one or more license server connections:
    1. Click an empty field in the Servers table or click the Add button.
    2. 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.
    3. In the Name field, enter the host name of the license server.
    4. 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.
    5. For redundant server environments, enter the names and ports, as required, for the secondary and tertiary servers.
    6. Click the Test Connection button to confirm that the connection information is correct and that the server is available.
    7. Click OK.
  6. Click Next.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.