User's Manual

Licenses 221
License restrictions
The following license restrictions apply to the IP Softphone 2050 Release
3.0.
• If at any time you rewind the system date by more than 24 hours, the
IP Softphone 2050 evaluation period license and cached license are
both invalidated.
•
Software reinstallation does not reset the license to provide another
30-day evaluation period.
• After you receive a valid license, you cannot return to the evaluation
license even if the evaluation period has not expired.
•
The IP Softphone 2050 requires a connection to the Licence Server, a
cached license, or time remaining for the evaluation period to place
an emergency call.
• If you configure redundant license servers, the licenses sold are locked
to the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the license server host
machine. If the host machine fails, you can reconfigure a computer
with the same host domain name to host the licenses (license file). For
information about configuring redundant license servers, see “Server
Redundancy” (page 227).
License types
The following two types of licenses exist:
•
“Upgrade licenses” (page 221)
•
“Normal R3 licenses” (page 221)
•
“Post-R3 licenses” (page 222)
Upgrade licenses
An IP Softphone 2050 that upgrades from the IP Softphone 2050 V2 or
lower attempts to check out an Upgrade License before it checks out a
Normal R3 license from the License Server. In other words, if you upgrade
your IP Softphone 2050 from a previous release then you can use an
upgrade license instead of a Normal R3 License.
If you upgrade your IP Softphone 2050 R3 to a later release, use Post-R3
licenses.
Normal R3 licenses
A Normal R3 License is a regular license that non-upgrade clients attempt
to check out from the server.
Nortel Communication Server 1000
IP Phones Fundamentals
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