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Chapter 10 Obtaining and Installing Licenses Grace Period Alerts Send documentation comments to [email protected] To update a license, follow these steps: Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Obtain the updated license file using the procedure described in the "Obtaining the License Key File" section on page 10-9. Save your running configuration to a remote server using the copy command (see the "Copying Files" section on page 16-6). Verify the name of the file to be updated. Follow the procedure for updating a license described in the "Uninstalling Licenses" section on page 10-14. Grace Period Alerts Cisco SAN-OS gives you a 120 day grace period. This grace period starts or continues when you are evaluating a feature for which you have not installed a license. Note There is no grace period for licenses purchased for the On-Demand Port Activation license feature. The grace period stops if you disable a feature you are evaluating, but if you enable that feature again without a valid license, the grace period countdown continues where it left off. The grace period operates across all features in a license package. License packages can contain several features. If you disable a feature during the grace period and there are other features in that license package that are still enabled, the countdown does not stop for that license package. To suspend the grace period countdown for a license package, you must disable every feature in that license package.The Cisco SAN-OS license counter keeps track of all licenses on a switch. If you are evaluating a f feature and the grace period has started, you will receive console messages, SNMP traps, system messages, and Call Home messages on a daily basis. Beyond that, the frequency of these messages become hourly during the last seven days of the grace period. The following example uses the FICON feature. On January 30th, you enabled the FICON feature, using the 120 day grace period. You will receive grace period ending messages as: • Daily alerts from January 30th to May 21st. • Hourly alerts from May 22nd to May 30th. On May 31st, the grace period ends, and the FICON feature is automatically disabled. You will not be allowed to use FICON until you purchase a valid license. Note You cannot modify the frequency of the grace period messages. Caution After the final seven days of the grace period, the feature is turned off and your network traffic may be disrupted. Any future upgrade will enforce license requirements and the 120-day grace period. OL-16184-01, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.x Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide 10-15