Licensing

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A license agreement must be accepted, and a license key must be provided to start a container.

License Information

The actual non-trial license key for limited, standard and enterprise edition of the container can be downloaded from Passport Advantage. See Downloading the software from Passport Advantage for details.

Trial License

The trial is activated by using a trial license key in container. You can request a trial license key by clicking the Request a Trial License on Trial Center site and following the instructions on the website. At the end of the trial request process, you will be able to download a trial license key by clicking the Verify Directory Enterprise Code. The downloaded file will have trial license key. You can then use this trial license key in your container config YAML to start using the container on a trial basis.

All offerings will be activated on a trial basis. After the trial period expires, the container will fail to start.

Note:
  • The trial license will be enabled for Enterprise edition.
  • The trial license key is applicable only for IBM® Security Verify Directory .
Displaying the license
The image is covered by an IBM software license. The license agreements can be viewed directly from the image by running the license <license-type> command. The available license types include:
  • limited
  • standard
  • enterprise
For example, the following command can be run in a Docker environment to display the standard license.
docker run --rm icr.io/isvd/verify-directory-server:latest license standard
License acceptance
The license agreement must be accepted before the Verify Directory containers are able to start. A specific license agreement can be accepted by supplying the container the name of the agreement that is being accepted in the general: license: accept configuration entry within the YAML configuration file. For example, the following YAML extract illustrates how to accept the standard license agreement in the YAML configuration file of the container. 
general:
  license:
    accept: standard
License key
The Verify Directory containers must be supplied with a license key before the containers are able to start. This license key can be supplied to the container in the general: license: key configuration entry within the YAML configuration file. For example, the following YAML extract illustrates how to specify the license key in the YAML configuration file of the container. 
general:
  license:
    key: "insert-your-license-key-here"

The license key itself is an encoded string that contains licensing data, for example the expiry date of the license. This license key can be retrieved from Passport Advantage™.