Determine whether to manage licensing with IBM Common
Licensing, DevOps Code ClearCase®, or Asynchronous licensing.
- IBM Common
Licensing
- IBM Common
Licensing is not available to
customers using ClearCase when it is
provided by HCL. You can use IBM Common
Licensing
if ClearCase is provided by IBM.
On Windows platforms, use IBM Common
Licensing to
manage licenses with the License Key Administrator (LKAD) application powered by the FLEXlm license
management tool.
The IBM Common
Licensing License
Key Administrator runs on a license server. To use this method, you must set up a license server and
install the License Key Administrator client software.Note: IBM Common
Licensing by FLEXlm is not supported on Linux™
S/390®, Linux on System z®, and Linux
PPC
platforms. On HP IA-64 platforms, ClearCase supports IBM Common
Licensing on ClearCase version 7.1 and later.
For information about configuring licensing in cases where IBM Common
Licensing is not supported, use ClearCase Licensing.
- ClearCase Licensing
- ClearCase
Licensing is available when using
ClearCase provided by IBM or HCL.
- In the ClearCase Licensing model, a set of
DevOps Code ClearCase and DevOps Code ClearCase
MultiSite licenses is defined in a license
database file. The license database file is stored on a license server host. Each license database
file defines a set of user licenses, perhaps 5, or 10, or 100. A license database file is valid only
if it contains a license authorization code, obtained from IBM Software Corporation or its designee.
The network can have one license server host or several. Because each license server host runs a
DevOps Code ClearCase server process, DevOps Code ClearCase must be installed on it.
Note: All
DevOps Code ClearCase andDevOps Code ClearCase
MultiSite products use the same license server.
The license server is the host listed in /var/adm/clearcase/config/license_host.
- Asynchronous Licensing
-
Asynchronous licensing is faster for the end-user in the normal case where a license is available
because ClearCase does not wait for a response
from the license server.