Users Guide

• Self-service portal — A link to the Self-Service Portal is available from CMC. Click this link to open the licensing Self-Service Portal on
the internet from where you can purchase licenses. For more information, see the online help for the self-service portal page.
• Point-of-sale — License is acquired while placing the order for a system.
License Operations
Before you perform the license management tasks, make sure to acquire the licenses. For more information, see the Overview and Feature
Guide available at support.dell.com.
You can perform the following licensing operations using CMC, RACADM, and WS-MAN for one-to-one license management, and Dell
License Manager for one-to-many license management:
NOTE: If you have purchased a system with all the licenses pre-installed, then license management is not required.
• View — View the current license information.
• Import — After acquiring the license, store the license in a local storage and import it into CMC using one of the supported interfaces.
The license is imported if it passes the validation checks.
NOTE: For a few features, a CMC restart may be required to enable the features.
• Export — Export the installed license into an external storage device back up or to reinstall it after a service part is replaced. The le
name and format of the exported license is <EntitlementID>.xml
• Delete — Delete the license that is assigned to a component if the component is missing. After the license is deleted, it is not stored in
CMC and the base product functions are enabled.
• Replace — Replace the license to extend an evaluation license, change a license type such as an evaluation license with a purchased
license, or extend an expired license.
• An evaluation license may be replaced with an upgraded evaluation license or with a purchased license.
• A purchased license may be replaced with an updated license or with an upgraded license. For more information about license, click Dell
Software License Management Portal .
• Learn More — Learn more about an installed license, or the licenses available for a component installed in the server.
NOTE
: For the Learn More option to display the correct page, make sure that *.dell.com is added to the list of Trusted Sites in
the Security Settings. For more information, see the Internet Explorer help documentation.
License Component State or Condition and Available
Operations
The following table provides the list of license operations available based on the license state or condition.
Table 7. License Operations Based on State and Condition
License/Component
state or condition
Import Export Delete Replace Learn More
Non-administrator login No Yes No No Yes
Active license Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Expired license No Yes Yes Yes Yes
License installed but
component missing
No Yes Yes No Yes
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