With Infrastructure-based Licenses (IBL), you can activate license rules to preserve license usage for a Cluster Agent in situations where the system cannot detect its vCPU details. When a Cluster Agent lacks vCPU information, it will be refused and will not be registered, preventing license consumption. This feature enables you to avoid using a license for the agent.

For example, use this setting when you are running a large cluster with several working nodes. If a node using the Cluster Agent fails, then the other app agents on the cluster may use up all the licenses available in the infrastructure-based license pool. When the node recovers and the Cluster Agent tries to get a license lease, there might not be enough available, which will result in overages. If the Machine/Cluster Agent license prioritization setting is activated, one of the other agents will release licenses to allow cluster agents to use them if there are not enough licenses available.

To enable the Prioritize Machine/Cluster Agent License Lease setting: