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Chapter4 Managing Feature Licenses
Monitoring Licenses
You can only identify 1 backup server and its optional standby unit.
Step7 Click Apply.
What to Do Next
See the “Configuring the Shared Licensing Participant and the Optional Backup Server” section on
page 4-36.

Configuring the Shared Licensing Participant and the Optional Backup Server

This section configures a shared licensing participant to communicate with the shared licensing server;
this section also describes how you can optionally configure the participant as the backup server.
Prerequisites
The participant must have a shared licensing participant key.
Detailed Steps
Step1 Choose the Configuration > Device Management > Licenses > Shared SSL VPN Licenses pane.
Step2 In the Shared Secret field, enter the shared secret as a string between 4 and 128 ASCII characters.
Step3 (Optional) In the TCP IP Port field, enter the port on which to communicate with the server using SSL,
between 1 and 65535.
The default is TCP port 50554.
Step4 (Optional) To identify the participant as the backup server, in the Select backup role of participant area:
a. Click the Backup Server radio button.
b. Check the Shares Licenses check box for any interfaces on which participants contact the backup
server.
Step5 Click Apply.
Monitoring Licenses
This section includes the following topics:
Viewing Your Current License, page4-37
Monitoring the Shared License, page 4-38