Chapter 27: Licensing - Avaya 1230 Administration

Chapter 27: Licensing

A license is a "right to use" granted by Avaya, that the customer purchases to enable the features
on the IP Deskphone. A license contains at least one entitlement and can contain more than one
entitlement. A license usually has an expiry date and is keyed for a specific license server.
An entitlement is the most basic component of a license and represents a single instance of a right
to a particular feature or capability. Entitlements are feature-related information passed to the server
through licenses. Entitlements are also known as tokens or keycodes.
On Avaya IP Deskphones, the licensing solution uses the Embedded Server Model. In this model,
the licensing server is embedded on the IP Deskphone and executes on the phone. There is a one
—to—one relationship between the license file and IP Deskphone. There are no multiple IP
Deskphones per server in the embedded server model; each IP Deskphone has its own embedded
server. The IP Deskphone does not have to connect to a remote server to obtain tokens; instead, it
calls the license server locally on the IP Deskphone. There are two modes of operation in this
model.
• Node Locked Solution
• Network Locked Solution
In the Node Locked Solution within the embedded server model, the administrator obtains a license
file for each IP Deskphone, and the license file is installed onto the IP Deskphone through the
provisioning infrastructure.
For the Network Locked Solution within the embedded server model, the administrator obtains a
generic license file, and the license file is installed onto the IP Deskphones through the provisioning
infrastructure.
The Embedded Server Model does not provide the following capabilities:
• Grace period handling
• SSL communication with the IP Deskphone as the server is local to the phone
• Crediting or transfer of entitlements
• Web-based OAM interface. There is no OAM functionality to upload the license file to an IP
Deskphone.
Licensing framework supports two types of tokens.
1. Time Based Tokens — These tokens expire based on the expiry date associated with the
key code.
2. Standard tokens — The warranty date on these tokens is verified based on firmware build
and contract dates available from the IP Deskphone.
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