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Upgrading the License
To upgrade the license:
1. Contact your dealer to obtain a license key for the number of slaves and
nodes you want to be able to access.
2. Insert the license key into a USB port on your master server.
3. Click
Upgrade
at the top right of the main panel.
Note:
1. Once the upgrade has completed, it is no longer necessary to keep the
key plugged into the USB port. Remove the key and place it
somewhere safe, since you well need it for future upgrades.
2. If you lose the USB license key, contact your dealer to obtain another
one. If you supply the key’s serial number the new key will contain
all of the information that was stored on the lost key.
License Sharing
The number of licenses for authorized devices on a CC2000 installation is set
on the master server through the license key, and are shared by all the CC2000
servers. Information about the number of licenses is sent to each slave at the
time that it registers with the master (see
Although there is no limit to the number of devices that can be added to the
CC2000 management system, only as many nodes as there are licenses for can
actually be created for management (see
When devices are added to the CC2000 management system the default
configuration is for them to be locked. Although their configuration
information is stored by the CC2000, they cannot be managed.
Locked ports can be unlocked either by selecting a physical port and unlocking
it by clicking the
Unlock
button (see
, page 99), or
by making the port part of an aggregate device (see
If all the licenses are in use, only if a currently unlocked port is locked, or if an
aggregate device is deleted – thereby freeing up the license it was using – can
a locked port (or new aggregate device) use that license to become unlocked
and be capable of being managed by the CC2000 management system.
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