Managing licenses
Configure your license or apply a trial key.
Before you begin
Typically, you start with HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) by installing the Community Edition (CE) or the Standard Edition (SE) Trial. Your edition is determined by the key that you enter during installation. As a reminder, the Current Application Edition field displays your current edition. If you want to continue to use the CE, no additional configuration is required.
About this task
- Apply your license by connecting Velocity version 5.0.9 or later to My HCLSoftware (MHS) server.
- Apply your license by connecting Velocity version 5.0.8 or earlier to Flexera server.
License server prerequisites
This procedure should be performed after the completion of these prerequisites:
- Configuration of the HCL Products and Platforms portal for software entitlements management via the My HCL Software server that interacts with Velocity.
- Velocity has direct internet access to the cloud server -or- HCL Common local license server (CLLS) is configured and Velocity has access to the HCL CLLS.
License server configuration
To apply your MHS license, complete the following steps:
Procedure
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Log on to the MHS and retrieve the License server
ID.
Note:
The License Server ID is also known as deployment ID in My HCLSoftware
.Ensure a configured device password is created by clicking Action and then selecting Set Password. -
On the Velocity dashboard, click .
The License server connection modal is displayed.
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In the License server field, enter any of the following
applicable URL:
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In the License server ID field, enter the cloud license
server ID from the My HCL Software server.
For the local license server, it is not required to enter the value for License server ID field.
- Click Save.