Brocade Virtual ADX Licensing Guide (Supporting ADX v03.1.00) - Manual (Page 11)

You can download the license file and transfer it to a TFTP server for upload to a Brocade Virtual ADX
instance.
Obtaining a license file
Complete the following steps to generate and obtain a license for Brocade Virtual ADX:
1. After your Brocade Virtual ADX order is confirmed, you will receive the entitlement certificate e-mail
message with the order details, together with your unique serial number and instruction to download
the specific Brocade Virtual ADX software from
MyBrocade .
2. To download and install the Brocade Virtual ADX software from MyBrocade , refer to the Instruction
for Downloading the Software and Documentation section in the entitlement certificate e-mail
message.
3. After installing your Brocade Virtual ADX instance, use the serial-number command at the Privileged
EXEC level of the CLI to add the serial number to your Brocade Virtual ADX instance. For example:
Virtual ADX# serial-number ABC12345678
Syntax: serial-number string
The string variable specifies the unique serial number of your Brocade Virtual ADX instance. This 11-
character, alphanumeric string is contained in the license entitlement e-mail message.
4. Use the show serial-number CLI command on your Brocade Virtual ADX to verify that the serial
number has been added to the instance. This serial number is used to validate your Brocade Virtual
ADX software license.
Virtual ADX# show serial-number
Serial-Number: ABC12345678
Syntax: show serial-number
5. Download the unique license file attached to the entitlement certificate email.
6. Install your license file (Refer to the section
Installing a license file on page 11).
7. Verify your license file installation (Refer to the section Verifying the license file installation on page
12).
Installing a license file
Copy the license file to a TFTP server to which the Brocade Virtual ADX has access and then use TFTP
to copy the file to the license database of the Brocade Virtual ADX instance. To copy a license file from
a TFTP server to the license database on the Brocade Virtual ADX instance, enter a command such as
the following at the Privileged EXEC level of the CLI:
Virtual ADX# copy tftp file 10.1.1.1 lic.xml license
Syntax: copy tftp file IP_address license_filename_on_host license
The IP_address variable is the address of the IPv4 TFTP server.
The license_filename_on_host variable is the filename of the license file.
NOTE
You must reload the software for a new license to take effect.
Obtaining a license file
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