Appendix J: Licensing - Avaya 1110 Fundamentals

Appendix J: Licensing

Licensing was introduced in the UNIStim 4.0 software and is supported on the Avaya 1100 Series IP
Deskphones and Avaya 2050 IP Softphone. A license is only required on an IP Deskphone running
UNIStim software or Avaya 2050 IP Softphone if one of the licensed features is to be enabled.
A license is a "right to use", granted by Avaya, that the customer purchases to enable licensed features
on the IP Deskphone. A license contains at least one entitlement and can contain more than one
entitlement.
An entitlement is the most basic component of a license and represents a single instance of a right to a
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 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. 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 licensing operations:
• Node Locked Solution
• Network Locked Solution
In the Node Locked Solution within the embedded server model, the administrator creates a unique license
file for each IP Deskphone based on its MAC address, and the license file is installed onto the IP
Deskphone through the provisioning infrastructure.
In the Network Locked Solution within the embedded server model, the administrator creates a generic
license file, and the single network locked 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 if a license expires
• Crediting or transfer of entitlements
• Web-based OAM interface. There is no OAM functionality to upload the license file to an IP
Deskphone.
The licensing framework supports one token type which contains a warranty date. The warranty date on
these tokens is verified, based on the firmware build date available from the IP Deskphone software. As
long as the build date is not past the warranty date, the license tokens are valid.
Important IP Deskphone licensing information is located in the Keycode Retrieval System (KRS) User
Guide. You must register for access to KRS.
You can view licensing information in the Local Diagnostics menu. For more information, see
diagnostic utilities on page 561
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