VCA local licenses management with Stratus 3.9

Stratus 3.9 also supports VCA Enterprise/Floating licenses. Described in detail here: VCA/Enterprise Floating license server management (token based)

Note: Which type of licensing is chosen determined by field in Control Panel: Settings ==> Identity ==> VCA license server host. If it is empty, then local licenses are used. Otherwise, the VCA Enterprise license server is used with an appropriate host name or IP. Control Panel Licensing Page is well adopted to show information about both VCA Enterprise license server licenses and local licenses.

vca-provider tool is used to manage local licenses. Such tool is a part of the vae-vca cartridge.

All available options and possible scenarios of the utility work are described through:

/opt/vae-vca/bin/vca-provider --help

Here is such tool output:

Usage: ./vca-provider [options]
Options:

-l --license activation key from STDIN or from file
-h --help Display this information

To get globally unique hardware identifier (HW GUID):
./vca-provider
To activate license from local file:
./vca-provider --license <path to file with activation key>
To activate license from STDIN:
./vca-provider --license

`Available scenarios in detail:`

Example of getting both hardware GUID and installed licenses list:

# /opt/vae-vca/bin/vca-provider

NOTE: Hardware GUID is needed for buying a VCA activation keys from the VCA sales team which can be installed later using the same tool.

Example of importing new activation key:

# /opt/vae-vca/bin/vca-provider -l

Please place activation key here and press Enter:

.....

Now you have to restart software

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`Available scenarios in detail:`