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Adding licenses

Your storage system software was installed at the factory. Storage Manager will automatically add the software to its list of licenses. If the software was not installed at the factory or if you want to add additional software licenses, you can add the software license by using Storage Manager .

Before you begin

The software license code for the specific ONTAP service must be available.

About this task

  • When you add a new license in a MetroCluster configuration, it is a best practice to add the license on the surviving site cluster as well.

  • You cannot use

    Storage Manager to add the ONTAP Cloud license.

    The ONTAP Cloud license is not listed in the license page. Storage Manager does not raise any alert about the entitlement risk status of the ONTAP Cloud license.

  • You can upload only capacity based licenses.

    The capacity based licenses are of json type.

  1. Click Configuration > Licenses .
  2. Click Add .
  3. In the Add License dialog box , perform the appropriate steps:
    If you want to...Do this...
    Add a capacity based license

    1. Click Browse , and then select the capacity based license file.

    2. Click Add .

    If you want to...Do this...
    Add a license for a specific ONTAP service

    1. Enter the software license key.

      You can add multiple licenses by entering the software license keys separated by commas.

    2. Click Add .

    Add a license for a specific ONTAP service and add a capacity based license

    1. Enter the software license key.

      You can add multiple licenses by entering the software license keys separated by commas.

    2. Click Browse , and then select the capacity based license file.

    3. Click Add .

    The new license is added.

    The Add License Status dialog box displays the list of licenses that were added successfully. The window also displays the license keys of the licenses that were not added and the reason why the licenses were not added.

  4. Click Close .

Result

The software license is added to your storage system and is displayed in the list of licenses in the Licenses window .

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