Manage and Activate Volume-based Licenses

To manage active Volume-based License:

  1. On the left navigation pane, click .
  2. Go to System > Licenses. From the top navigation bar, select the VBL Active from the FM/Cloud drop-down.

    This page lists the following information about the active Volume-based Licenses:

    Field

    Description

    SKUs

    Unique identifier associated with the license

    Bundles

    Bundle to which the license belongs to

    Volume

    Total daily allowance volume

    Starts

    License start date

    Ends

    License end date

    Type

    Type of license (Commercial, Trial, Lab and other license types).

    Activation ID

    Activation ID

    Entitlement ID

    Entitlement ID

    3. Note:  The License Type and Activation ID are displayed by default in the VBL Active page. To display the Entitlement ID field, click on the column setting configuration option to enable the Entitlement ID field.

    The expired licenses are displayed in the VBL Inactive page, which can be found under the FM/Cloud drop-down in the top navigation bar. This page lists the following information about the inactive Volume-based Licenses:

    Field

    Description

    SKUs

    Unique identifier associated with the license.

    Bundles

    Bundle to which the license belongs to.

    Ends

    License end date

    Grace Period

    Number of days the license is in grace period

    Deactivation Date

    Date the license got deactivated.

    Revocation Code

    License revocation code.

    Status

    License status.

Note:  The License Type, Activation ID and Entitlement ID fields are not displayed by default in the VBL Inactive page. To display these fields, click on the column setting configuration option and enable these fields.

Use the following buttons to manage your VBL.

Button

Description

Activate Licenses

Use this button to activate a Volume-based License. Refer to Activate Volume-based Licenses for more information.

Email Volume Usage

Use this button to send the volume usage details to the email recipients.

Filter

Use this button to narrow down the list of active Volume-based Licenses that are displayed on the VBL active page.

Export

Use this button to export the details in the VBL active page to a CSV or XLSX file.

Deactivate

Use this button to deactivate the licenses. You can only deactivate licenses that are in grace period or that have expired.

For more detailed information on dashboards and reports generation for Volume-based Licensing refer to the following table:

For details about: Reference section Guide
How to generate Volume-based License reports How to Generate Volume-Based License Usage Reports GigaVUE Administration Guide
Volume-based Licensed report details Volume Based License Usage Reports GigaVUE Administration Guide
Fabric health analytics dashboards for Volume-based Licenses usage Dashboards for Volume-based Licenses Usage GigaVUE-FM User Guide

Activate Volume-based Licenses

To activate Volume-based licenses:

  1. On the left navigation pane, click .
  2. Go to System > Licenses. From the top navigation bar, select the VBL Active from the FM/Cloud drop-down.
  3. Click Activate Licenses. The Activate License page appears. Perform the following steps:
    1. Download the fabric inventory file that contains information about GigaVUE-FM. Click Next. Refer to the What is a Fabric Inventory File? section for more details.
    2. Navigate to the Licensing Portal. Upload the Fabric Inventory file in the portal. Once the fabric inventory file is uploaded, select the required license and click Activate. A license key is provided. Record the license key or keys.
    3. Return to GigaVUE‑FM and add the additional licenses.

Default Trial Licenses

After you install GigaVUE-FM, a default free 1TB of CoreVUE trial volume-based license (VBL) is provided one-time for 30 days (from the date of installation).

This license includes the following applications:

  • ERSPAN
  • Geneve
  • Slicing
  • Masking
  • Trailer
  • Tunneling
  • Load Balancing
  • Enhanced Load Balancing
  • Flowmap
  • Header-stripping
  • Add header

Note:  There is no grace period for the trial license. If you do not have any other Volume-based licenses installed, then after 30 days, on expiry of the trial license, any deployed monitoring sessions will be undeployed from the existing GigaVUE V Series Nodes.

To deactivate the trial VBL refer to Delete Default Trial Licenses section for details.

Delete Default Trial Licenses

GigaVUE-FM allows you to deactivate the default trial licenses from this page. To deactivate the license:

1.   On the left navigation pane, click .
2. Go to System > Licenses >Floating. Click Activated.
3. Click Deactivate > Default Trial VBL.

The VBL trial licenses is deactivated and is no longer listed in the Activated page. However, you can view these deactivated licenses from the Deactivated page.