Managing floating client access licenses — distributing IBM Common Licensing tokens

A floating CAL server can also distribute IBM Common Licensing tokens.

Another type of floating CAL, called the IBM Common Licensing Token Service, is an extension of the Jazz® Team Server that allows token requests to be forwarded to a License Key Server. When the Jazz Team Server requests a certain number of tokens, the extension checks out the tokens from a License Key Server. This integration allows Jazz-based IBM Rational products and non-Jazz based products to share the same tokens. See Setting up the IBM Common Licensing token service keys for more information.

The following topology diagram shows a Jazz Team Server (with registered applications), another Jazz Team Server that is configured to be a dedicated floating license server, and the License Key Server application:

Topology diagram of a Jazz Team Server application configured to be a dedicated token license server

Table 1. Key for abbreviations
Abbreviation	Name
CCM	Change and Configuration Management application
JTS	Jazz Team Server
QM	Engineering Test Management application
RM	Requirements Management application