The main screen displays any installed licenses and the
status of each license. Click on any column heading such as Product,
License Type, Expiration, License Term, or Qty to sort the information.
If any menu options are disabled, ask your system administrator
to modify your Windows administrator privileges.
The following
list describes the menu bar and command bar at the top of the screen.
- View
- Status Bar: Displays titles of buttons on button bar and
titles of most main menu options in the lower left corner of the main
screen box.
- Show
- Invalid and Expired Licenses: Shows all expired node-locked,
floating, and served licenses on the system.
- Floating Licenses: Shows all floating licenses on the system.
- Node Locked Licenses: Shows all node-locked licenses that
are installed on the system.
- Served Licenses: Shows floating licenses available by request
for IBM Rational® products
on your system.
- Refresh
- License Keys
- Get, Return, Move Keys: If the system has an internet connection,
this option connects you to the Rational Support
Licensing page where you can access the Rational License Key Center to
request permanent license keys.
- License Key Wizard: Opens the License Key Administrator
wizard
- Enter License Key...: Opens the License Certificate wizard,
enabling you to enter License Key Certificate information.
- Import License Key(s): Opens the Import License
Key(s) window, enabling you to import a license key file.
- Host Data: Displays the host name and host ID (Disk ID)
of your computer. You need this information to request a permanent
license key from the Rational License Key Center.
- Settings
- Client/Server Configuration: Starts the Client/Server
Configuration window, that enables you to:
- Specify license servers.
- Enter port numbers.
- License Usage Mapper: Lets you set the order in which a Rational application
uses Rational Suite
and point product licenses.
- Server Wait Time...: Lets you specify the number of seconds
your computer waits to establish a connection with each server when
searching for licenses.
- Server Ports: Lets you enter the lmgrd port and the Vendor
port on the license server.
- Display Expiration Warnings: Specifies whether you want
to receive warnings about license key expirations. Do not routinely
disable expiration warnings. This should be done only when batch processes
might not run correctly with license expiration messages popping up.
- License Display Colors...: Launches the Display
Colors window. You can select the display color for permanent,
served, expired, temporary, Term License Agreement (TLA), and invalid
licenses.
- Reset Hidden Dialog: Clears the "Don't show
this..." check box. Lets the License Key Administrator
wizard and other windows open again.
- Help
- Contents and Index: Displays help information for License
Key Administrator.
- About IBM Rational License Key Administrator: Displays
the version information for the License Key Administrator.