Sun Microsystems SL500 manual Licensing Tasks, License Installation Process

Licensing Tasks

Licensing Tasks

This section provides detailed instructions for all tasks involved in installing and managing library feature licenses.

License Installation Process

Following is a summary of the license installation process. Optionally, you can choose to have this process done by your Sun support representative.

1.You purchase one or more features for a specific Sun StorageTek library from Sun Microsystems, Inc.

2.Sun sends you an e-mail with an attached license key file.

3.You download the license key file to a system accessible to the SL Console session.

4.You use the SL Console to verify and install the license key file on the target library.

5.You reboot the library in order to activate the new features.

6.See the following topics for detailed information about implementing specific licensed features:

■“Capacity on Demand” on page 147

■“Library Partitioning” on page 143

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