A3 Licensing

License Activation

When NAC entitlement subscriptions are purchased, the licenses are accompanied by activation instructions, which are summarized here. These instructions cover the actions for End Customers. Instructions for Distributors, Partners, and Resellers are covered in the activation instructions.

Linking your Extreme Portal account

To use the licenses, you must log into your ExtremeCloud IQ GUI.

Please choose the second option to link your account. To be able to use the licenses you purchased, you will be asked to enter your Extreme Portal credentials. Some notes:

If you are already using the ExtremeCloud IQ GUI, please hover over you name in the upper right-hand corner and select Global Settings > Administration > License Management. Select "Link my Extreme Licensing Portal" to use your licenses after entering your Extreme Portal credentials.

• If you don’t have an Extreme Portal account, you will be required to register for one at the Extreme Portal.
• If you are not successful in linking your account and believe you have a new subscription that requires linking, please contact Global Technical Assistance Center. Not being able to link is typically an indication that the entitlements are not tied to your account.

Once the linking operation is complete, the display will indicate that the linking has been successfully processed.

A3 Installation

During an A3 installation or upgrading, a connection to an ExtremeCloud IQ account is required before licensing mode is determined. The A3 installation licensing mode will be set to the new A3 NAC Entitlement mode if a connection to a cloud account is successfully established. If no connection is attempted or if the connection fails, then the legacy licensing installation page will be displayed.

In new A3 NAC Entitlement mode, the A3 installation will be registered with anExtremeCloud IQ account and entitlement updates will be attempted every hour. Administrators will be able to exchange legacy licenses for new A3 NAC entitlements within 90 days. During this first 90 day grace period, all license violations will be ignored. See ExtremeCloud IQ License Management for further details.

New A3 NAC entitlements details can be viewed by hovering over the user name at the top-right of the ExtremeCloud A3 display, and selecting Manage Licenses from the list that appears.

For any A3 NAC entitlements that are about to expire within the next 30 days, a warning message will be displayed along with the number of expiring devices, if the Average Used Capacity exceeds the Licensed Capacity minus the number of expiring devices

For any A3 NAC entitlements, if the Average Used Capacity exceeds the Licensed Capacity, or if an A3 cluster is disconnected from ExtremeCloud IQ for more than 30 days, a violation message is displayed, an example of which is shown below.

The ExtremeCloud IQ NAC Entitlements table lists A3 installations by their Cluster IDs. The prefix A3 is dropped when referenced in ExtremeCloud IQ. Cluster IDs for A3 installations are displayed as read-only under Configuration > System Configuration > Cluster.

ExtremeCloud IQ License Management

NAC entitlements are managed from ExtremeCloud IQ. The License Management page is found by hovering over your user name at the top-right of the ExtremeCloud IQ display. Select Global Settings from the list that appears.

Entitlements are allocated to A3 clusters according to their cluster ID, as displayed in the read-only field in the previous figure. The Total entitlements available to allocate is shown below NAC Entitlements heading (15000 in this example). Percentages of those entitlements are set in the ALLOCATED % column of the table (1% in this case).