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.
- IBM License Key Center to generate or return your ELM or IBM Rational product license keys.
- License Key Server Administration and Reporting Tool to 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.
- It obtains status by using the lmutil command
- It uses the server log file and converts the log data into the SQL records
- The
lmgrd
license manager Daemon - The
ibmratl
vendor daemon - The client program, in this case an ELM or IBM Rational product
- The license file
lmgrd
daemon and the vendor daemon work together to manage the license
keys. The lmgrd
daemon handles the initial contact with the client application
programs, passing the connection on to the vendor daemon. The lmgrd
daemon also
starts and restarts the vendor daemon. The vendor daemon tracks how many licenses are checked out
and who has the licenses. The license file contains license key data for several products and is
created for a specific host. The license key file is created based on the data that the IBM License Key Center provides.