HP MFP Digital Sending Software (DSS) - Processes for License Activation and Rehosting

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When the new Poetic system is ready to process activation requests for licenses purchased before
December 2
nd
customers will be redirected from the SLM website to the Poetic website.
When activating the older DSS licenses using the new process the License Number should be used
wherever the instructions below say to use the EON.
Activation Process
Two pieces of information are required to activate a license: the EON and the MAC address of the
server on which the license will be used. The MAC address is necessary because DSS licenses are
locked to a MAC address.
To activate a license go to the licensing site www.hp.com/software/licensing and sign in using HP
Passport. After signing into the licensing website customers will see the screen shown below. In
order to activate a license enter the EON and click the Go button.
The next screen shows all the products that have been ordered under the specified EON and have
not yet been activated. In this example EON we have ordered several of each type of DSS license
product which are available by e-delivery. A product is a license type, for example, the product
D8G45AAE is the product number for single device licenses available via e-delivery and the
product D8G46AAE is the product number for 5 device licenses available via e-delivery. Since the
activation process binds all selected licenses to a single MAC address we will only select the
licenses here we want bound to a specific MAC address.
Frequently customers will only be using a single DSS server and will want to bind all the licenses
they ordered to the MAC address of that server. In our example we will assume a more
complicated scenario. In this scenario we have several DSS servers and we are currently activating
licenses only for a small test server where we want to be able to bind 6 MFPs to that server. On this
screen we will select only the products which represent 5 device licenses and 1 device licenses for
activation. Select those products then click the activate button.