When you enter the End User Portal to activate a license belonging to a bulk license order, you see a page similar to the following:
Note that if no licenses have been activated yet, the Downloadbutton does not appear. From this page, you can either activate a new license or download an existing license, as described in "Activating a new license" and "Downloading an existing license", below.
...
To activate a new license:
- Open the activation form panel with HostID(s) by clicking the Activate button on the main page.
A page opens that shows information you need to enter to activate your license. - Enter the required HostID information, such as Ethernet, Hostname, IP Address, Username, etc. You can also import HostIDs from the string as a comma-separated list of types and values (for example, USERNAME=John, HOSTNAME=office.john) by clicking the Import button.
- If specifiedrequired, select the Optional HostID Type. This is an optional field that may contain a list of additional , unrequired HostID(s) that can be specified to activate the license. If this field is greyed out, no optional HostID information is required and you can skip this step.
- Activate your license by clicking the Activate button.
After activating the license, a page opens that displays the message: "License activated successfully", as shown below.
The page that opens also lists information about the license, including License Status, Activation Time, Expiration Date, Maintenance End Date, and HostIDs. - Download the activated license by clicking the Download button.
...
The following example shows that 30 activations are allowed and 23 remain, indicating that 7 licenses have been activated. Let’s download a license belonging to this license order. (Note that the Download button is not visible if you have not activated any licenses.)
To download an existing license:
...