FLEXLM LICENSING LICENSE KEY

The same License Key Administrator and License Tools utility can be used for all vendors, even if the third party vendor also provides these tools with their product. Warning: The following procedure is not supported by IBM В® Rational В® but is technically possible.Д®ach vendor's licenses must be configured as separate services. The same version should be used on license server and clients.

It is also recommended to use the latest version of lmgrd for all the flexlm vendors, but is not a hard and fast rule.

Though such setup may work, itВ is pretty much unstable.

One important point to note is to never use the lmgrd version lower than the vendor daemon version.

If you still wish to combine license files and enter into a unsupported IBMВ® RationalВ® license server configuration, please refer to the Flexera's FLEXlm End User's Guide located on their web site in conjunction with the following procedure.

Configuring the system to use a single lmgrd daemon offers no operational advantage and creates unnecessary work for the administrator of the license server.

Note: It might be possible for you to combine lmgrd daemons, but doing so is not supported by IBMВ® RationalВ®. ItВ is able toВ serveВ all license features that were previously served by the rational and telelogic vendor daemons, so the latter daemons are no longer required and should be removed from, or hashed out in, the license file. As of IBMВ® RationalВ® License Key Server version 8.1.1 the ibmratlВ vendor daemon is theВ vendorВ daemon to use. Using separate daemons and license files will not inhibit performance.

Do not combine the lmgrd daemons or license files from the other vendor(s) with the IBMВ®RationalВ® vendor daemon or license file.

For IBMВ® RationalВ® software, you must install the IBMВ® RationalВ® License Server separately from the other vendor(s).

The following items needs to be considered: Setup of IBMВ® RationalВ® FLEXlm licensing with third party vendors to run multiple servers on a single host is technically possible but unsupported.

Flexlm licensing