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Administering Licenses

In this chapter

Licensing with NETCONF overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Retrieving the switch license ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Obtaining a license key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Installing or removing a license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Activating the Dynamic POD feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Obtaining the Dynamic POD assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Overriding Dynamic POD assignments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Licensing with NETCONF overview

The Brocade Network Operating System (Network OS) includes platform support in standalone and
Brocade VCS Fabric modes as well as optional features that are enabled by license keys.

The following licenses are available in Network OS v4.1.1:

Ports On Demand (POD)1 license—Provisions additional Ethernet ports on the Brocade VDX
6720 and VDX 6730 platforms.

POD2 license—Provisions yet more Ethernet ports on the Brocade VDX 6720 and VDX 6730
platforms.

Brocade FCoE license—Enables Fibre Channel over Ethernet functionality.

Brocade Layer 3 license—Enables licensed Layer 3 features and is only required on VDX
chassis switches.

This chapter describes NETCONF operations that install, activate, remove, and verify licences. Refer
to the Network OS Administrator’s Guide for the following information:

Instructions for adding and removing licenses. You cannot add or remove licenses using the
NETCONF interface.

Platform variations for each license, including the effect of POD1 and POD2 licenses

The specific features enabled by each license

Temporary and permanent licenses

Firmware upgrade and downgrade considerations

Retrieving the switch license ID

The switch license ID identifies the switch for which the license is valid. You will need the switch
license ID when you activate a license key.