Fabric OS Administrator's Guide v7.0.0 (53-1002148-02, June 2011)

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Slot-based licensing
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NOTE
The 10 GbE feature on the FX8-24 blade and the 10 Gbps FC feature on the 16 Gbps FC blades are
both enabled by the same 10 Gigabit FCIP/Fibre Channel license (10G license). This license can also
enable the 10 Gbps FC feature on a Brocade 6510 switch as a chassis based license.
All other licensed blade features continue to be exclusively chassis-based licenses.
Any unassigned slot-based license will be automatically assigned to applicable blades that are
detected in the chassis when the license is installed. If you have more applicable blades than
available license capacity, then you can manually assign or re-assign the licenses as necessary.
Once a license is assigned to a slot, whether it has been automatically assigned or
manually-assigned, the assignment will remain until you manually reassign the license to another
slot. This design allows for various maintenance operations to occur without having the license
move around to other slots.
For a slot-based licensed feature to be active, follow these steps:
1. Install a slot-based license on the platform with sufficient slot count for the number of slots you
plan to activate the feature on.
2. Configure slots so that the licensed feature is assigned to slots. No more slots can be
configured than specified in the license.
3. Configure the application that uses the licensed feature on the blade in the slot. This operation
verifies that the previous two steps have been successfully completed.
Once these steps are complete, the feature will work on the blade.
Upgrade/downgrade considerations
When a Slot-based license is present on the switch, firmware downgrade to pre-Fabric OS v6.3.0 is
allowed, but the slot-based features that were licensed will not be functional.
On upgrade to Fabric OS v7.0.0, any slot-based license that displayed the 10GbE operation name in
the earlier release displays instead as “10 Gigabit FCIP/Fibre Channel (FTR_10G) license.”
Assigning a license to a slot
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions, or an account with
OM permissions in the license class of RBAC commands.
2. Enter the licenseSlotCfg -add command to add the license to the appropriate slot.
Removing a license from a slot
To remove a slot-based license from a blade slot, follow these steps:
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions, or an account with
OM permissions in the license class of RBAC commands.
2. Deconfigure the application that uses the licensed feature on the blade slot.
3. Enter the licenseSlotCfg -remove command to remove the license from slot.