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Milestone Husky M30/M50 Administrator's Manual
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Licenses
About licenses
When you purchase your system, you also receive a certain number of licenses for device channels.
Device channels are typically cameras or dedicated input/output boxes. One device channel license
enables you to run one camera or one dedicated input/output box. You can use and define an
unlimited number of microphones, speakers (if your system supports this), inputs, and outputs.
When you have installed the various system components, configured the system, and added recording
servers and cameras, the surveillance system initially runs on temporary licenses that you must
activate before a certain period of time ends. This is called the grace period. If grace periods expires
on one or more of your devices and you have not activated any licenses, recording servers and
cameras do not send data to the surveillance system. Milestone recommends that you activate your
licenses before you make final adjustments to your system and its devices.
If you add more device channels than you currently have licenses for, you must buy additional licenses
before the cameras can send data to your system. If you are short of licenses, you can disable less
important cameras to allow new cameras to run instead. To disable or enable a camera, expand
Hardware Devices. Select the relevant hardware device, right-click the relevant camera, and select
Enable or Disable.
About devices and licenses
You need licenses for the number of device channels —typically cameras, but could also be dedicated
input/out boxes —you want to run on the Milestone Husky product system. One device channel license
enables you to run one camera or one dedicated input/output box. You can use and define an
unlimited number of recording servers, microphones, speakers, inputs and outputs.
You can always get more licenses as your surveillance system grows. See About getting additional
licenses.
About getting additional licenses
If you want to add —or have already added—more device channels than you currently have licenses
for, you must buy additional licenses before the cameras can send data to your Milestone Husky
product system.
To get additional licenses for Milestone Husky product, contact your vendor, or visit
www.milestonesys.com to log into the software registration service center. When your license file (.lic)
is updated, you can activate your licenses. See Manage licenses for more information on activating.
Overview of license information
You can get an overview of your licenses from the Management Application's navigation pane.
Expand Advanced Configuration and select Hardware Devices. This presents you with the
Hardware Device Summary table.