Enterasys Networks 9034313-07 manual Activating Licensed Features, License Key Field Descriptions

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Activating Licensed Features

In order to enable the C3 advanced features, such as Advanced Routing, you must purchase and activate a license key. If you have purchased a license, you can proceed to activate your license as described in this section. If you wish to obtain a permanent or evaluation license, use the Enterasys Customer Portal or contact the Enterasys Networks Sales Department.

Note: All members of a stack must be licensed in order to support licensed features in a stack environment. If the master unit in a stack has an activated license, all member units also must have an activated license in order to operate. If the master unit in a stack does not have an activated license, then the licensed functionality will not be available to member units, even if they have licenses installed.

License Key Field Descriptions

When Enterasys supplies a license, it will be sent to you as a character string similar to the following:

INCREMENT advrouter 2006.0127 27-jan-2011 0123456789AB 0123456789AB

The contents of the six fields, from the left, indicate:

•Type—the type of license. For the SecureStack C3, the value in this field is always “INCREMENT.”

•Feature—description of the feature being licensed. For example, ”advrouter” as shown in the character string above.

•Date‐based version (DBV)—a date‐related string. For the SecureStack C3, the value in this field is not significant.

•Expiration type—indicates whether the license is a permanent or an evaluation license. If the license is an evaluation license, this field will contain the expiration date of the license. If the license is a permanent license, this field will contain the word “permanent.”

•Key—the license key.

•Host ID—the serial number of the switch to which this license applies.

When activating licenses on SecureStack devices, we recommend that you copy and paste the license character string, rather than entering the text manually.

Licensing Procedure in a Stack Environment

The licenses for all members of an operating stack can be activated during a single CLI session, by following these steps:

1.Obtain valid licenses for all members of the stack from the Enterasys Customer Portal.

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