Detailed directions, Requesting a license – Grass Valley iControl V.6.02 User Manual
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Detailed Directions
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Detailed Directions
Requesting a License
Workflow: Requesting and activating licenses for several Application Servers
1.
Ensure all Application Servers for which you would like to license features is currently
running iControl version 4.30 or later.
2.
Choose one of the Application Servers for which you would like to license features.
(hereafter called AS 1).
3.
Ensure AS 1 is connected to the network through its eth0 Ethernet port.
1
1. On the Dell PowerEdge R310 and R320, this is labelled as physical port Gb1.
4.
Request the desired set of iControl licenses for AS 1 (see
).
If, on the license request file confirmation message one or more of the expected
Application Servers are missing, make a note of each of the missing Application Servers by
IP address.
5.
Wait for Grass Valley to return an activation file.
6.
Upload the activation file to AS 1 (see
7.
Review the licensing terms of the requested features.
8.
Preview the requested features.
9.
Activate the licenses for AS 1 (see
).
10.
For each Application Server you made note of in Task 4, perform the workflow for
requesting and activating licenses on a single Application server (see
IMPORTANT: Grass Valley strongly recommends performing procedures only in the context of
how they are called from the workflows (see
IMPORTANT: Features listed as Pending were active on this Application Server before it was
upgraded to the current version of iControl. The first time you request a license,
iControl also requests activation files for these already licensed features at no
additional charge.
Until you upload activation files to the Application Server for these already-paid-
for features, you will be using these features on a trial basis which will expire
30 days after first use.
It is important to request these features’ activation files as soon as possible
after upgrading to this version of iControl