Software-based licensing
When you use the software-based licensing, the Software-based License Server provides a server for centralized management of license keys for one or more instances of ZD&T.
Before you enable the software-based licensing, you need to know the terms that are used in the enablement process.
Host ID and host name
Each license key file is uniquely identified in the Rational® License Key Center with the host name and host ID of the Software-based License Server for which the license was generated. For software-based licenses, the host name is the host name of the server, which can be displayed with the Linux® hostname command. If the host name has periods, such as if it is an IPv4 address, the Rational License Key Center replaces the periods in the host name with underscore characters.
The host ID, which is required to be unique across all license key files in the RLKC, is a generated unique identifier for each Software-based License Server. The host ID is generated when the license key file is generated. If you are trying to find the license key file in the RLKC, by using either Return Keys, View Keys by Host, or View Keys by User, the host ID of the server is the field that uniquely correlates a license key file to the Software-based License Server for which it was generated.