Purchase a License Kit containing a License Certificate with a License Authorization code (LAC). For more information, contact your Avaya sales representative.
Ensure that a properly configured TFTP server resides in your network.
Assign IP addresses to all switches.
Obtain the switch base MAC addresses for the switches that use licensed features—perform ACLI command show sys-info to obtain base MAC addresses.
Ensure that your browser does not automatically decompress the compressed binary license file.
After you create the license file at the site identified in the License Kit, you must specify a file name; example: building100_ers5000.lic.
License file names must conform to the following restrictions:
maximum of 63 alphanumeric characters
lower case only
no spaces or special characters permitted
underscore (_) permitted
doc (.) and a three character file extension required
If you need to include multiple MAC addresses in a license file, use a text-based file that conforms to the following rules:
ASCII file format
one MAC address on a line
no other characters, spaces, or special characters permitted
MAC addresses in hexadecimal, capitalized format, each pair of characters separated by colons: example, (XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX)
file must contain correct MAC addresses—incorrect MAC addresses result in licensed features not working on designated units
number of MAC addresses must not exceed the number of MAC addresses allowed for the LAC entered for a file as described in the following table: