The customer or service technician uses the WBM to assign the purchased licenses to stations and lines. Once the licenses have been assigned successfully, the licensed features are activated.
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• Activating Licenses (Standalone)
• Assigning Licenses (Standalone)
4.3.1 Activating Licenses (Standalone)
After purchasing a product or feature, you must first activate the licenses provided with the product or feature. After successful activation of the licenses, the licenses are assigned.
Licenses can be activated by one of the following two methods:
• Online license activation (via the license authorization code)
Using the WBM, the customer or service technician transmits the license authorization code to the Central License Server (CLS) via the Internet.
Together with the LAC, the Locking ID of the communication system is used for license activation. The CLS creates a license file from the data and sends this back to the system, which then activates the licenses purchased.
To access the CLS, you will need an Internet connection. The IP address of the CLS is saved in the WBM under License Management > Settings and can be changed by an administrator with the Expert profile if required.
INFO: Before the online licensing can be performed, the registration data must first be entered correctly.
• Offline license activation (using the license file)
The customer or service technician logs in at the Central License Server (CLS) and enters the license authorization code there along with the Locking ID of the communication system. The CLS generates a license file from the data entered. The customer or service technician downloads the license file and copies it into the WBM. The system then actives the purchased licenses.
The IP address of the CLS is saved in the WBM under License Management
> Settings and can be changed by an administrator with the Expert profile if required.
Licensing Licensing a Communication System (Standalone)
If the communication system is to be expanded, further licenses can be purchased. On purchasing more licenses, an additional License Authorization Code (LAC) with which the newly procured licenses can be activated is supplied.
INFO: Additionally purchased licenses can also be activated remotely.
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Related Topics
• Assigning Licenses (Standalone)
• Licensing a Communication System (Standalone)
4.3.2 Assigning Licenses (Standalone)
Once the purchased licenses have been activated successfully, they must be assigned to the stations and lines. In a standalone system, system-wide features are enabled automatically upon activation.
Assigning Station Licenses and User-oriented Licenses
Subscribers can be assigned station licenses and user-oriented licenses.
Station licenses can be assigned to the following subscriber types:
The station licenses are permanently assigned to the numbers of the subscribers.
If a subscriber is deleted or if another subscriber type is assigned to a call number, the associated station license is released.
After a station license has been assigned to the subscriber, a user-oriented license can also be assigned to that subscriber.
The following user-oriented licenses can be assigned to the stations:
Icon Station license Description
IP stations for the use of IP system telephones (HFA or SIP) and SIP telephones
TDM stations for the use of UP0 system phones, ISDN phones, analog phones and DECT phones
Mobile stations for the use of myPortal for Mobile/Tablet, myPortal web, Mobility Entry and DISA (One Number Service)
DeskSharing stations for the use of Desk Sharing by IP stations
Licensing
Licensing a Communication System (Standalone)
You can have an overview of all station licenses and user-oriented licenses displayed (via Local User Licenses > Overview).
This overview also shows the statuses of the licenses for each subscriber.
Possible license states:
Icon User-oriented license Description Voicemail For the use of the voicemail box.
UC Smart for the use of the UC Smart features via myPortal Smart.
Groupware user For the use of the UC Suite features via myPortal for Outlook.
UC Suite for the use of the UC Suite features via myPortal for Desktop.
Fax For use of a fax box within the UC Suite. As a prerequisite, one UC User or Groupware User license is required.
Conference for use of the UC Suite conference features. As a prerequisite, one UC User or Groupware User license is required.
myAttendant For use of the UC Suite Attendant features.
myAgent For the use of Contact Center functions.
Application Launcher For call-related control of applications on a client PC during incoming and outgoing calls, e.g., launching an application or displaying caller information.
TAPI 120/170 For the use of TAPI compliant applications and for PC-supported telephony with the customer's own applications from various software vendors.
Symbol Explanation
Successfully licensed.
Unsaved license release.
Not licensed
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Assigning System Licenses
System licenses include licenses for trunks and for system-wide features.
Licenses can be assigned to the following types of trunks:
• S2M trunks: number of B channels
• ITSP trunks: number of simultaneous calls conducted via a single ITSP In a standalone system, licenses for system-wide features will have already been unlocked by default during the license activation. Consequently, no further assignment is required.
License assignment procedure
Prerequisite: The license file is activated and the stations are configured.
• How to License Stations
a) Assign a station license to a subscriber. This assignment triggers the generation of a license request for the subscriber while at the same time enabling the assignment of the user-oriented licenses.
b) Assign the user-oriented licenses to a subscriber. These assignments cause further license requests to be generated for the subscriber. Please note that some licenses require other licenses (see Possible License Combinations).
c) Check and unlock license requests.
d) If there are not enough licenses to be unlocked, the invalid assignments will be displayed via the license statuses (in red). Correct the license assignments and then check and unlock the licenses again.
INFO: To obtain a better overview, you can have the license assignments for all subscribers printed out as a preview (via Local User Licenses > Overview > Print). At the end of the printout, all invalid assignments are listed in a separate table.
• Assign trunk licenses
The trunk licenses must be distributed to the required S2M and ITSP trunks.
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Related Topics
• Licensing a Communication System (Standalone)
• Activating Licenses (Standalone)
• Station Licenses
Unsaved license demand release.
License demand configurable.
Unsaved license demand.
License demand not configurable.
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Licensing Multiple Communication Systems (Internetwork)
4.4 Licensing Multiple Communication Systems (Internetwork)
The licensing of a multiple communication systems must be performed in a specific sequence. This sequence is shown below for a sample internetwork consisting of one OpenScape Business S (master) and two OpenScape Business X3 (slave) systems.
When multiple OpenScape Business (nodes) systems are combined into an internetwork, licensing occurs centrally via a network license file, which is activated on the master node. In addition, each slave node in the internetwork needs its own networking system license. The node with the largest bandwidth should be the master node.
The nodes in the internetwork are configured as a master node and slave nodes via the Network Wizard of the WBM. The master node contains the central license agent (central CLA; central Customer License Agent). All slave nodes in the internetwork use this CLA for the licensing. To enable this, the IP address of the master node must be made known to the slave nodes using the WBM.
Only one network license file exists for the entire internetwork. This file is bound to the master node via the node's locking ID. If an OpenScape Business S (SoftSwitch) is the master node, the network license file is bound to the master node via either the Locking ID of the Linux server of the SoftSwitch or the Advanced Locking ID of the SoftSwitch if the SoftSwitch is used in a virtual environment. The network license file is stored in the central CLA and contains all the license information of the internetwork. It can be activated only at the master node via the WBM. Only the master node has access to the CLS; at all other nodes, the access is disabled.
No node-specific licensing should be performed in the internetwork. If separate network files exist for each node, you can combine them into a network license file at the CLS.
Behavior during Network Problems (Failover)
If the connection to the master node and thus to the central CLA fails, the message "Failover Period" appears on the displays of the system telephones.
During this failover period (max. 30 days), all nodes and their features continue to operate normally. Once the network problems have been resolved and the connection to the central CLA is restored, all nodes revert to the regular license status.
If the network problems cannot be resolved within the failover period, the nodes switch to operating in emergency mode. The entire internetwork will then need to be relicensed.
Licensing Procedure in the Internetwork Based on the Above Example OpenScape Business S (Master) and both OpenScape Business X3 (Slave) systems are already installed, configured and combined to form an internetwork.
Licensing Licensing Multiple Communication Systems (Internetwork)
1. License Authorization Code (LAC)
On purchasing licenses, the customer receives a License Authorization Code (LAC). The information on the licenses purchased are stored in the database of the Central License Server (CLS).