Installing IBM License Service

The License Service is required for monitoring and measuring license usage of IBM Sterling Transformation Extender in accordance with the pricing rule for containerized environments. You must deploy License Service on all clusters where IBM Sterling Transformation Extender is installed. Manual license measurements are not allowed. By using license annotations, you can track usage based on the limits that are defined on the container, rather than on the underlying machine. You configure your clients to deploy the container with specific annotations that the IBM License Service then uses to track usage.

The integrated licensing solution collects and stores the license usage information, which can be used for audit purposes and for tracking license consumption in cloud environments. The solution works in the background and does not require any configuration. Only one instance of the License Service is deployed per cluster regardless of the number of Cloud Paks and containerized products that you install on the cluster.

You must deploy License Service on each cluster where IBM Sterling Transformation Extender is installed. License Service can be deployed on any Kubernetes cluster. For more information about License Service, including how to install and use it, see the License Service documentation.

To maintain license reporting continuity for license compliance purposes, ensure that License Service is successfully deployed and periodically verify whether it is active. For example, to validate whether License Service is deployed and running on the cluster, you can log in to the cluster and run the following command: