Brocade Network OS Software Licensing Guide v4.1.0 - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
Preface.....................................................................................................................................3
Document conventions......................................................................................3
Text formatting conventions.................................................................. 3
Command syntax conventions.............................................................. 3
Notes, cautions, and warnings.............................................................. 4
Brocade resources............................................................................................ 5
Getting technical help........................................................................................5
Document feedback.......................................................................................... 6
About This Document................................................................................................................ 7
Supported hardware and software.................................................................... 7
What’s new in this document............................................................................ 8
Software Licensing Overview......................................................................................................9
Licensing overview............................................................................................9
How software licensing works........................................................................... 9
License types.................................................................................................. 10
Software licensing terminology....................................................................... 10
License requirements......................................................................................11
Licensing restrictions and considerations....................................................... 13
Usage restrictions for time-based licenses......................................... 13
Configuration management considerations.........................................13
Upgrade and downgrade considerations............................................ 14
Obtaining a license..........................................................................................14
Viewing software license information from the Brocade software portal.........16
Licensing Tasks.......................................................................................................................19
Installing a license...........................................................................................19
Adding an FCoE license......................................................................20
Displaying a license ....................................................................................... 20
Displaying the switch license ID......................................................................21
Removing licenses.......................................................................................... 21
Extending a time-based license...................................................................... 23
Troubleshooting licensing issues.................................................................... 23
License is not properly installed.......................................................... 23
Dynamic Ports on Demand Licensing.......................................................................................25
Dynamic Ports on Demand overview.............................................................. 25
Managing automatic POD port assignments...................................................26
Mapping port assignments to a POD port set................................................. 26
Activating the Dynamic POD feature ..............................................................27
Adding a Dynamic POD license...................................................................... 28
Displaying the Dynamic POD assignments.....................................................28
Overriding Dynamic POD assignments...........................................................29
Reserving a port assignment.............................................................. 29
Releasing a port from a POD set........................................................ 29
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