Deactivating licenses

The following page lists the HTTP operations that need to be performed to successfully deactivate an LAC license.

To deactivate a license for a given, unique combination of an activation key and a HostID, use the following request:

DELETE /licenses/(activation_key)/(hostids)

where:

activation_key (string) is your license order activation key

and

hostids (string) are Base64 encoded values. The format of HostID(s) that you can specify is a comma-separated list of types and values; for example, ETHERNET=AABBCCDDEEFF,IPADDRESS=192.168.0.5

Note that request headers are used by default.

Example request

DELETE /rest/v1/licenses/4CT1V-4T10N-K3Y1S-C000L/dHlwZTE9dmFsdWUxLHR5cGUyPXZhbHVlPTI= HTTP/1.1
Host: license.x-formation.com
Accept: application/hal+json

Response

The LAC REST API returns standard HTTP response codes as described in the following table.

Status Code	Header Field	Description
204 No Content	Cache-Control Date	Deactivation successful.
403 Forbidden	Allow Cache-Control Content-Encoding Content-Language Content-Length Content-Type Date	License order has been disabled.
404 Not Found		Cannot deactivate license.

Example response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

For more information about HTTP methods, see Supported HTTP methods.

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