Specifications

Activating Licensed Features
SecureStack C3 Configuration Guide 3-29
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st ackfromtheEnterasysCustomerPortal.
2. Optionally,notetheserialnumbersoftheswitchesinthestack.Youcanusetheshowsystem

hardwarecommand(page3‐13)todisplaytheswitchserialnumbers.
3. Enablethelicens esonthestackmembersfirst,beforeenablingthemasterunit,usingtheset
licensecommand(page3‐31).Forexample:
C3(rw)->set license INCREMENT B2Policyadvrouterpolicy 2006.0127 27-jan-2011
0123456789AB 0123456789AB
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.
Note: Since license keys are applied to the correct stack member switch automatically, based on
the switch serial number that is part of the license string, you should know the serial numbers of the
switches in order to enable the licenses of the member switches first, before the master unit.