Managing licenses

License types

The following types of licenses are available to be purchased to use the products in the Rational® Test Workbench package:

Authorized User licenses
Floating licenses
Token licenses
Processor value unit (PVU) licensing

For more information about the license types, see License descriptions.

Information resources for licensing

You can read about the licenses, process to obtain licenses, licensing servers, and other related information for IBM® Rational® software products in the following information:

IBM Support article that describes Rational® product activation licensing at Product Activation of Eclipse-based Rational products.
Rational® licensing support page at IBM Support - Licensing
IBM Support article on How to obtain license keys for IBM Rational products.
Rational® Common Licensing information at IBM Common Licensing documentation.
Details about the processor value units at Processor Value Units (PVUs)

Setting up licenses

After you purchase the licenses, you can evaluate and decide the method that you want to use to set up the licenses. You can use any of the following methods:

Using the Product activation kit to set up the licenses. See Product activation kit.
Using a license server to set up the licenses. See License server.

Important: You must set up the licenses before you can use the installed products.

Product activation kit

You can download the product activation kit from Rational License Key Center. You can find details about the Rational License Key Center in the following web pages: Product Activation of Eclipse-based Rational products and IBM Support - Licensing.

After you download the product activation kit, you must use the product activation kit to set up licenses after you install the product.

For setting up licenses by using the product activation kit, see Using product activation kit to set up licenses.

License server

You can set up IBM® Common License Key Server or IBM® Rational® License Key Server to deploy the licenses.

Verify from the System Requirements, the supported license server that you can use to deploy the licenses for your product.

For information about setting up the license server, see IBM Common Licensing documentation. You can also contact your IBM Support representative for directions on the license server.

After you obtain the licenses and set up a license server, you can configure licenses as floating licenses on the computer on which you install the product. To generate the floating licenses, you need the hostname and port number of the license server. Floating licenses are generated for a specific license server.

For setting up floating licenses, see Enabling floating licenses.

Verifying licenses for the installed products

You can review license information for your installed packages, including license types and their expiration dates, from IBM® Installation Manager.

You can view the license information in any of the following situations:

You installed the products with a trial license.
You installed a purchased product and want to ascertain if the licenses are configured.

You can view the license information by performing the following steps:

Open Installation Manager, if it is not already open.
The main page of Installation Manager is displayed.
Click Manage Licenses.
The products that you installed by using Installation Manager are listed along with the following details:
- Name of the product
- Vendor
- License type
- Expiration date