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licensePort
Manages Dynamic Ports On Demand (DPOD) licenses.
SYNOPSIS
licenseport --release port
licenseport --reserve port
licenseport --show
licenseport --method dynamic | static
DESCRIPTION
Use this command to manage and display Dynamic Ports on Demand (DPOD) license assignments.
Dynamic Ports On Demand (DPOD) is an optional feature available on all embedded platforms. DPOD
takes the expansion capability of static Ports On Demand (POD) and adds the flexibility of activating any
available port as long as a valid license is available. In Static mode, POD allows only specific fixed ports
to be activated or licensed. With DPOD, any physical port can be made active as long as the total
number of licenses is not exceeded.
The Dynamic POD feature assigns ports to the POD license in the order in which they come online until
they equal the number of online licensed ports. This command provides the mechanism to make
adjustments to the dynamic assignments by reserving assignments for specific ports in the event that
there are more online ports than the purchased POD licenses can support.
NOTES
The execution of this command is subject to Virtual Fabric or Admin Domain restrictions that may be in
place. Refer to Chapter 1, "Using Fabric OS Commands" and Appendix A, "Command Availability" for
details.
On unsupported platforms, this command returns a "not supported" message.
OPERANDS
This command has the following operands:
port
Specifies the number of the port to which to assign or from which to remove a
POD license. A port must be specified when releasing or reserving a port.
--release
Releases a license assignment from the specified port when the switch is using
the Dynamic POD method. The port must be offline for this command to succeed.
--reserve
Reserves a license assignment for the specified port when the switch is using the
Dynamic POD method. The port must be offline for this command to succeed.
--show
Displays the POD license assignments.
--method
Selects the POD method as one of the following:
dynamic
Selects the dynamic POD method.
static
Selects the static POD method.