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Understanding How Licensing Works Configuration steps Related procedures and topics Step 3 Determine whether you need additional licenses. Determine if your users and phones are considered basic, enhanced, essential, and so on. • Understanding The License Types, on page 97 • Understanding How Borrowing and Loaning of Licenses Works, on page 99 • Viewing Status for Licensing, on page 103 Step 4 If necessary, obtain additional licenses. Obtaining Licenses, on page 101 Step 5 Install the additional licenses that you purchased. You can install the licenses in the Cisco Business Edition 3000 First Time Setup Wizard when you first set up your system, or you can install the licenses in the Cisco Business Edition 3000 Administrative Interface(Maintenance > Manage License). After you install one permanent license of any type, Cisco Business Edition 3000 invalidates all starter licenses that are on the server. Caution Before you add a phone, access the Manage License page to make sure that you have installed enough licenses. You cannot add the phone if there are not enough licenses of a license type that the system will use. • Installing a License File, on page 102 • Understanding The License Types, on page 97 • Understanding How Borrowing and Loaning of Licenses Works, on page 99 Understanding How Licensing Works Cisco User Connect Licensing (UCL) is a user-based licensing model where the number of users and phones that are added to the Cisco Business Edition 3000 system get tracked and licensed for use. For each license type, which are described in the Understanding The License Types, on page 97, Cisco Business Edition 3000 dynamically and automatically manages your licenses for you; the Manage License page in the Cisco Business Edition 3000 First Time Setup Wizard and the Cisco Business Edition 3000 Administrative Interface can indicate the following information about your licenses: • How many licenses are used of each license type • How many licenses are available for use - Available indicates that the license is installed but not used yet. • Whether you need to consider installing additional licenses • Whether you are using starter licenses Your Cisco Business Edition 3000 server comes automatically installed with 5 starter enhanced licenses and 5 starter voicemail licenses. (A starter license is installed on the Cisco Business Edition 3000 server by default.) Starter licenses do not expire. After you install one permanent license of any license type, Administration Guide for Cisco Business Edition 3000, Release 8.6(4) 96 OL-27022-01