Modifying the product license type

IBM® License Metric Tool (ILMT) helps you manage license allocation services on supported systems. In general, it recognizes and monitors the products that are installed and in use on your system.

About this task

IBM License Metric Tool is enabled for Operational Decision Manager inventory support. It detects product installation and deployment, but not its usage. When installed and activated, the tool scans your system for product inventory signatures that indicate whether a component is installed on your system. It also identifies the version, release, and modification levels of the product.

The product inventory signature is inserted into the application archives at installation time. The type of signature is determined by the license type and the deployment environment that you can select: production or nonproduction.

Decision Center, Rule Execution Server and the Event runtime must be deployed as an exploded archive to activate the tool.

On WebSphere® Application Server and Tomcat, an archive is exploded by default during deployment.
On other application servers, an archive must be exploded before deployment:

Important: On Java™ SE, you must deploy the files with the suffix .swidtag in <InstallDir>/license/ilmt.zip file along with the Rule Execution Server library JAR files.

Procedure

To modify the product inventory signature, you run the Ant script update_ilmt_ear.8.8.xml available in the <InstallDir>/shared/ilmt directory. Open the file for detailed usage instructions.

Example

Run an Ant script to modify the license type and deployment environment for Decision Server.

set JAVA_HOME=<InstallDir>\jdk\jre\bin
set PATH=%PATH%;<InstallDir>\jdk\jre\bin
<InstallDir>\shared\tools\ant\bin\ant -buildfile=update_ilmt_ear.8.8.xml -Dbasedir=<InstallDir> -Dcomponent=dsr -Dlicense=full -DisProd=true

This command sets the license to Decision Server for production .