License types

Depending on your agents operating system and intended use case, you can decide the license type you might need for your HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) agents.

There are four types of licenses available for Deploy agents:
  • Authorized license for typical (non-z/OS) agents
  • Authorized license for z/OS agents
  • Floating license for typical (non-z/OS) agents
  • Floating license for z/OS agents
Note: The Deploy server does not require any licenses in order to connect to and interact with the Web UI.

Licenses are applied to agents via the Web UI. You can configure the server to automatically apply licenses to new agents as they connect. For information about how to apply licenses, see Applying HCL licenses to agents.

Authorized license for typical agents

The authorized license type allows you to allocate license to specific agents until they are deleted or unlicensed.

The authorized type license for typical agents is shown as Authorized (HCL_Agent) in Deploy.

Authorized license for z/OS® agents

Agents on z/OS® use different licensing than the typical agents. However, the z/Linux™ agents use the same licensing as the typical agents. Each z/OS agent requires a license, even if multiple agents are running on a single logical partition (LPAR). One agent is required on each environment, even if the environments are on a single z/OS sysplex.

The authorized type license for z/OS agents is shown as Authorized (HCL_Agent_Z) in Deploy.

Floating license type for agents and z/OS® agents

Floating licenses are required when you want multiple agents to share a limited number of licenses. In floating license type, the licenses are not tied to agents. When an agent which is not licensed performs a deployment, the server looks for an available license from the license pool. If a license is available, it reserves the license for that agent until the work is done. When the agent completes its work, the license is returned to the license pool for other agents to work.

If there are insufficient licenses for the number of floating agents, then the server records that but it still allows deployment to continue.

The floating type license for typical agents is shown as Floating (HCL_Floating_Agent) and for z/OS agents is shown as Floating (HCL_Floating_Agent_Z) in Deploy.