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Learn how to administer settings in HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) elements and communication between the elements.
Licensing
HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) provides a 60-day license-free evaluation period. To use all product features after the evaluation period, you must have a license.
License scenarios
After the evaluation period, you must acquire agent licenses before you can use all product features. These agent licenses can be used in few of the scenarios mentioned below.

Administering
Learn how to administer settings in HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) elements and communication between the elements.
- Backup and recover
  You can back up and recover the contents of your HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) installation.
- High availability and failover
  You can configure clustered HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) servers, and agents for high availability. You can also configure agents and agent relays for failover.
- Setting up high-availability clusters
  To configure a high-availability cluster, you store shared files on network storage. Then, you configure multiple servers, set each server to access the same files and database, and configure a load balancer to distribute the traffic between the servers.
- Adding cold standby servers
  You can add cold standby servers to serve as a backup server or for disaster recovery. You must start the secondary server or servers when the active server fails, and network traffic is routed to the secondary servers.
- Server settings and configuration
  After you install HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy), you can modify the server configuration and configure more options.
- Setting user preferences
  Each user can specify display options for the server, including the language for the server and how the server shows times and dates.
- Agents and agent relay configuration
  After you install an agent for HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy), you can modify its configuration or create an agent relay to facilitate communication to remote relays.
- Licensing
  HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) provides a 60-day license-free evaluation period. To use all product features after the evaluation period, you must have a license.
  - License scenarios
    After the evaluation period, you must acquire agent licenses before you can use all product features. These agent licenses can be used in few of the scenarios mentioned below.
  - Applying licenses to agents
    You can download the software for installation and apply the licenses that are associated with your order.
  - Tracking agent usage
    You can track daily agent usage. Agent usage can provide a rough estimate of agent license use.
- Setting up the wizard for new users
  HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) includes a wizard to help users become familiar with the procedures and steps in creating a deployment. Some configuration is required before the wizard can be used.
- Customizing the table views
  Customize a table view in the HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) application by hiding or showing, and reordering of the table columns.
- Managing data

License scenarios

After the evaluation period, you must acquire agent licenses before you can use all product features. These agent licenses can be used in few of the scenarios mentioned below.

If you are using a license monitoring tool, you must ensure that agents are connected to the server so that the correct license usage is reported. The agents get their license type from the connection to the HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) server. Therefore, if the agents cannot connect to the Deploy server, the .swidtag files in the agent directory might be incorrect, and as a result, the license usage reports from the IBM® License Metric Tool might not reflect actual usage. Check firewalls and other agent connectivity issues to be sure that licenses are available and accurately accounted for.

The following license scenarios are available.

Agent licensing

Deploy agents require a license in order to be used to run deployment or import build artifacts. Note that the Deploy server does not require any licenses in order to connect to and interact with the Web UI.

You must configure Deploy to connect to FlexNet Operations server that contains the HCL LAUNCH licenses. Licenses are applied to agents via the Web UI, or the server can be configured to automatically apply licenses to unlicensed agents as they connect. For information about how to apply licenses, see Applying licenses to agents.

The licenses are released when the agents are deleted.

Licenses for use with high-availability servers

If you have an Deploy High Availability Server Cluster, then all servers in the cluster must be configured to connect to a FlexNet Operations server.

Licensing for z/OS®

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

To run deployments, agents on z/OS® must have the HCL LAUNCH zOS license.