IBM Common Licensing overview
IBM® Common Licensing offers a
license management solution for IBM
Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) or
IBM
Rational® products. With IBM Common Licensing, your
organization can track or monitor licenses and evaluate the licenses of various products that
organization uses. The products provide various licensing models that offer the flexibility to
manage and obtain optimum license usage. The license management tools consist of web applications
that help you purchase licenses, administer license servers, and prepare reports. The report
presents a view of the license by product. You can prepare various useful reports to understand and
analyze the product licenses usage in an organization. With different types of reports, you can
prepare detailed metrics for the total number of licenses for a specified set of products. You can
readily learn the expiration date of licenses for each of product.
The web-based tools of IBM Common Licensing are as follows:
- IBM License Key Center to generate or return your ELM or IBM Rational product license keys.
- License Key Server Administration and Reporting Toolto administer license servers and report license usage. This tool provides a consolidated list of all the license servers in your organization. Based on the license server artifacts, the reporting application creates various reports to track and report license usage.
License Key Server Administration and Reporting
Tool requires License Key Server Administration Agent to be installed on the computer where license
servers, such as License Key Server or ELM server,
are installed. The server administration agent is installed in the WebSphere® Application Server
Liberty Profile container. The server administration agent performs two key functions for the server
administration and reporting tool:
- It obtains status by using the lmutil command
- It uses the server log file and converts the log data into the SQL records
The main components of IBM Common Licensing are as follows:
- The lmgrd license manager Daemon
- The ibmratl vendor daemon
- The client program, in this case an ELM or IBM Rational product
- The license file