Specifications

Licensing
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Vision
2
Operation/Reference Guide
Licensing
This section explains how to License your Vision
2
system and allocate Licenses to your Vision2 servers. There
are three typical steps to licensing a Vision
2
system:
1. Obtain a License Entitlement ID for your Vision
2
system from AMX.
2. Use the License Entitlement ID with the AMX License Manager on your Vision
2
Master server or a local
Network License manager to activate your license.
3. Use the Vision2 License Management Screen Manage System > Manage Licensing within the Vision
2
user interface to allocate the services contained in your AMX license entitlement to different Vision
2
servers.
Steps 2 and 3 above are described in more detail below. We also discuss how to upgrade your license to
increase the number of services you can allocate.
AMX License Manager
To use your Vision
2
system you must first license the Master Server using the AMX License Manager. The
AMX License Manager is used to install and manage software licenses for Vision
2
(as well as other AMX
software applications). The local License Manager application communicates with a License server which can
be based on the local machine or elsewhere on your network. Click the AMX License Manager shortcut on the
master server desktop, once the License Manager launches you are shown the welcome page which lists the
AMX Software you have installed. Select the product you want to license, in this case Vision
2
and click Next
to proceed to the Select License Server dialog where you can either specify an AMX license server on your
network if you have one already or install one locally.
Select A License Server
Use the options in this dialog, see FIG. 36, to install the AMX license Server application on this machine, or
select an existing network license server.
FIG. 35 Select a Product to license
You can only have one instance of Vision
2
per AMX license server otherwise you risk
problems with license contention.