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SecureStack C3 Configuration Guide 4-1

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.

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cha racter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.

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.