Managing Riverbed Licenses
  
Managing Riverbed Licenses
This chapter describes the Riverbed licensing methods and how to manage Riverbed licenses. It includes these sections:
•  Riverbed licensing methods
•  Retrieving licenses using the Riverbed Licensing Portal
•  Installing your license keys
Riverbed licensing methods
A license is a string issued by Riverbed that embeds information that ties the license to data to prevent tampering. After you install the license, the system saves it in the configuration database and enables the functionality associated with the license. Riverbed employs the following licensing methods:
•  Manual Licensing - You can manually fetch and activate licenses for Riverbed products using the Riverbed Licensing Portal. Go to https://licensing.riverbed.com/index.htm and follow the instructions to retrieve and activate license keys.
•  Factory Licensing - You can have all your Riverbed licenses installed at the factory for a small fee.
•  Token Method - You use tokens to activate Riverbed software, such as the Virtual SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead Mobile, Virtual SteelStore, SteelHead (virtual edition), and HP ProCurve. For detailed information, see the respective installation guides for these products.
Manual licensing using the Riverbed Licensing Portal
You can retrieve and manage Riverbed licenses using the Riverbed Licensing Portal. Once you retrieve a license from the Riverbed Licensing Portal, you need to install it.
Retrieving licenses using the Riverbed Licensing Portal
The licensing portal requires a unique product identifier to retrieve a license. Depending on the product, the identifier can be a serial number, a license request key (activation code), or a token. The steps to retrieve a license vary based on the product identifier. Online instructions guide you through the process.
To retrieve your licenses for an appliance using a serial number
1. Go to the License page in the Riverbed Licensing Portal at https://licensing.riverbed.com/index.htm.
2. Enter your appliance serial number as your unique product identifier.
The serial number is on a label located on your appliance. It also appears in the Help tab of the SCC Management Console.
3. Click Next.
4. Provide the contact information for the license, including your name and email.
5. Click Submit to display license information for all the products purchased with the serial number you specified.
6. Click a serial number to see license details.
7. Optionally, if you are behind a firewall, type the email address in the Email address text box and click Email Keys to have the license keys emailed to you.
8. Optionally, if you are behind a firewall, click Download XML to download an XML file. The XML file can be imported by the SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead.
Tip: Click New Search to look for additional license records.
Installing your license keys
Because each license key is generated for a specific appliance, ensure that you install your license key on the appropriate appliance.
To install a license using the SCC Management Console
1. Connect to the SCC Management Console of the appliance. For details, see the SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead User’s Guide.
2. Choose Administration > Maintenance: Licenses to display the Licenses page.
3. Click + Add New License to expand the page.
4. Copy and paste the license key provided by Riverbed Licensing Portal into the text box. Separate multiple license keys with a space, Tab, or Enter.
5. Click Add to display the license in the table.
You can also install a license key using the SCC command-line interface (CLI).
To install a license using the CLI
1. Connect to the CLI of the appliance and enter configuration mode.
For details see the Riverbed Command-Line Interface Reference Manual.
2. At the system prompt, enter the following commands:
license install <license-key>
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