For up-to-date product documentation, see the IBM MobileFirst Foundation Developer Center.

Installation overview for token licensing

The installation process overview for the use of IBM MobileFirst™ Platform Foundation with token licensing enabled

Before you begin

Review Plan for the use of token licensing.

If you intend to use token licensing with IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation, make sure that you go through the following preliminary steps in this order.

Important:

• Your choice about token licensing (activating it or not) as part of an installation that supports token licensing cannot be modified. If later you need to change the token licensing option, we must uninstall IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation and reinstall it.

Procedure

1. Activate token licensing when you run IBM® Installation Manager to install IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation.

   Graphic mode installation

   If you install the product in graphic mode, select Activate token licensing with the Rational License Key Server option in the General settings panel during the installation.

   Figure 1. Activating token licensing during the installation of the product.

   For more information about running IBM Installation Manager, see Run IBM Installation Manager.

   Command line mode installation

   If you install in silent mode, set the value as true to the user.licensed.by.tokens parameter in the response file.

   For example, we can use:
   imcl install com.ibm.mobilefirst.foundation.server -repositories mfp_repository_dir/MobileFirst_Platform_Server/disk1 -properties user.appserver.selection2=none,user.database.selection2=none,user.database.preinstalled=false,user.use.ios.edition=false,user.licensed.by.tokens=true -acceptLicense

   For more information about installing MobileFirst Server in command line mode, see Install by running IBM Installation Manager in command line.

2. Deploy the MobileFirst Server to an application server after the product installation is complete. For more information, see Install MobileFirst Server to an application server.
3. Configure MobileFirst Server for token licensing. The steps depend on your application server.
   • For WebSphere® Application Server Liberty profile, see Connecting MobileFirst Server installed on WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile to the Rational License Key Server
   • For Apache Tomcat, see Connecting MobileFirst Server installed on Apache Tomcat to the Rational License Key Server
   • For WebSphere Application Server full profile, see Connecting MobileFirst Server installed on WebSphere Application Server to the Rational License Key Server.

Parent topic: Install and configure for token licensing