Allied Telesis 2.6.1 manual Enabling Special Feature Licences, Setting System Parameters

20 AT-8800 Series Switch User Guide

Enabling Special Feature Licences

You must enable the special feature licence you have purchased before you can use the licenced features. You will need the password provided by your authorised distributor or reseller. The advanced upgrade licence and password are different from the standard software release licence and password. The licence cannot be transferred from one switch to another.

For software features that require a special feature licence see “Special Feature

Licences” on page 11.

You must order passwords for special feature licences from your authorised distributor or reseller. You must specify the special feature licence bundle and the serial number(s) of the switch(s) on which the special feature licences are to be enabled.

The password for a special feature licence is a string of at least 16 hexadecimal characters. This password encodes the special feature, or features, covered by the license, and the switch serial number. The password information is stored in the router’s FLASH memory.

To enable or disable a special feature licence, enter the commands:

ENABLE FEATURE=feature PASSWORD=password

DISABLE FEATURE=feature

To list the current special feature licences, enter the command:

SHOW FEATURE[={featurenameindex}]

Setting System Parameters

You can set some general system parameters to ensure the router’s compatibility with the public network, and to aid network administration.

System name, location and contact parameters can help a remote network administrator identify the switch. By convention the system name is the full domain name. Set the name and location of the switch, for example:

SET SYSTEM NAME=nd1.co.nz

SET SYSTEM LOCATION=”Head Office, 3rd floor east”

and a contact name and phone number for the network administrator responsible for the switch, for example:

SET SYSTEM CONTACT=”Anna Brown 03-456 789”

The name, location, and contact are strings 1 to 80 characters in length of any printable character. If the string includes spaces enclose it in double quotes.

Set the router’s real time clock to the current local time in 24 hour notation (hh:mm:ss), and to the current date (dd-mmm-yy, or dd-mmm-yyyy), for example:

SET TIME=14:50:00

SET DATE=29-JAN-02 or

SET DATE=29-JAN-2003

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