Licensing Grass Valley products
The following sections contain instructions for managing Grass Valley product licenses.
About software licensing
Aurora Edit is licensed via Grass Valley's SabreTooth License Manager. When the
software is initially installed, it will have a 30 day temporary license (Aurora Edit
HD) that can be used during the setup phase. It is important to run the License Request
Wizard found on the system desktop in order to retrieve a permanent license. Once
the permanent license is in place, you may then delete the temporary license from the
License Manager application.
Licenses are requested through the License Wizard and managed through the
SabreTooth License Manager, which is installed on the Grass Valley product with the
Grass Valley software. The License Wizard and SabreTooth License Manager must
be located on the Grass Valley product.
License information is stored in text
fi
les that you can manage just like any other
fi
le
on your system. Licenses are unique to the system for which they are requested and
cannot be used on any other machine. You should back up the license text
fi
les to a
separate drive or as part of a recovery image.
Licenses are based on your system
’
s unique identi
fi
er, which is partially derived from
your system
’
s Media Access Control (MAC) address. If you change your system
’
s
MAC address by performing operations such as changing the System Processor card,
you must obtain a new license based on the new MAC address.
Requesting a license
This topic applies to Grass Valley Sabretooth licenses. Software licenses are unique
to the system for which they are purchased. They cannot be used on any other system.
This requires that you provide a generated unique ID for the desired system to Grass
Valley, which is then used to create your unique license.
1. Log on to the device that you want to license.
You must log in as a Windows administrator with a local account, not a domain
account.
2. Open the License Request Wizard.
Find the License Request Wizard shortcut on the Windows desktop.
The License Request Wizard displays.
3. Read the on-screen instructions, then click
Next
.
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