Allocate DevOps Code ClearCase licenses

Before you contact IBM (or its designee) to request a license authorization code, consider how many authorization codes you need.

In this scenario, your organization has purchased 25 DevOps Code ClearCase® licenses. You must determine the number of license servers required and how to allocate licenses to them. Here are two examples:

Use a single license server host

In this case, you request a single license authorization code for 25 licenses. You create a single license database file that incorporates this code.

A drawback to this strategy is its single point of failure. If this license server host becomes unavailable, no one can use DevOps Code ClearCase. You might consider making some important DevOps Code ClearCase data server also act as the license server; if that host goes down, that important data is unavailable. The added inconvenience of not being able to use DevOps Code ClearCase is relatively small.

Use two license server hosts

In this case, you request two license authorization codes, one for 15 licenses and another for 10 licenses. You create two license database files that incorporate these codes on two different hosts.

This strategy provides for more robustness. If the 15 license server goes down, developers can still use DevOps Code ClearCase, but only 10 concurrent users, down from 25.

All clients that point to the inoperable license server must be redirected to the remaining license server.