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Setting up Your license on a Client Machine


Before you start

There are three license types that can be used by IBM Rational client software. Before you run the license setup, make sure a valid license is available. The license types are explained in Table 1.

Table 1 License types for IBM Rational licenses
License type Decsription

Floating

A floating license is obtained from a FlexNet license server. Ask your administrator for the FlexNet license server details, for example 27000@licenseserver.

Node-locked

A node-locked license key can only be used by the computer for which it was created.

Copy your license.dat file to a directory on your machine, and take a note of the location of the file.

FLEXid Dongle

A hardware-id that connects to a parallel or USB port. The dongle is associated with a FLEXid. The license.dat file references the FLEXid associated with your dongle.

Copy the license.dat file to a directory on your machine, and take a note of the location of the file.

Note: Dongles are only available for Windows machines.

For more information see Understanding IBM Rational Licenses, and the FlexNet License Administration Guide, which is available from the support area of the Flexera website at www.flexera.com.

Setting up your license on Windows

There are several ways to setup licenses for FlexNet. Choose one of the following that best suite your needs.

If you are using a FLEXid dongle, you must install the needed drivers for the specific dongle used, these drivers can be found at www.flexera.com.

Setting up your license on UNIX

On UNIX machines the easiest way to setup licenses is to ensure that the license.dat file is placed in the installation directory. This file should have the following content:

SERVER licserver 1 27000
USE_SERVER

The name of the license server is licserver and 27000 is the portnumber used.

As an alternative the environment variables TELELOGIC_LICENSE_FILE or LM_LICENSE_FILE can be set to point at the license server. If you are using the Bourne or K shell enter

setenv TELELOGIC_LICENSE_FILE=portnumber@servername

If you are using the C shell enter

env TELELOGIC_LICENSE_FILE portnumber@servername

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