Managing licenses from the GUI
You can add licenses, stack licenses, and view license details from the UI. You cannot delete licenses from the UI. You must use the Access command-line interface to delete licenses.
To add a license:
- Sign in to the Access Appliance UI by using the
https://console-ip:14161URL where console-ip is the management console IP address. - Click Settings > Licensing management.
Do one of the following:
If a trialware license exists on your system, on the Licensing management page, click Upload license.
If a subscription or a perpetual license is already installed and you want to stack additional licenses, click Add license key.
- Browse to the location of your
.slflicense file and click Add.A notification is displayed on the top of the page. To monitor the task, click View details. The ongoing and completed tasks for the add license operation are also displayed in Recent activity.
The following details are displayed on the page:
Product name: Name of the product.
License type: Type of installed license: subscription, perpetual, or trialware.
Start date: Start date of the license. Not shown for perpetual licenses.
Total licensed capacity: Storage capacity for which the license is purchased.
Product version: Version of the product
License meter: Per-TB
End date: Expiry date of the license. Not shown for perpetual licenses.
Used capacity: Storage capacity used for data. Alerts are generated if the used storage is more than the licensed storage.
Appliance model: Model number
State: Current state of the license, active or expired.
Available capacity: Total storage capacity of the appliance. Not shown for trialware licenses.
The following figure shows the details displayed for a trialware license:
