Licensing and activation

If you did not license and activate your servers during installation, you will have to license and activate them using the Carbonite Replication Console. There are several licensing and activation methods that depend on the Carbonite Availability and Carbonite Migrate product you are using, your license agreement, and your Internet connection (or lack thereof).

• Licensing—You can manage your licenses as well as apply them to servers using the Carbonite Replication Console.
  • Managing the license inventory—You can centrally manage your Carbonite Availability and Carbonite Migrate licenses through the license inventory feature in the Carbonite Replication Console. Ideally, you should select one machine in your organization where you want to maintain the license inventory because the license inventory does not communicate between machines.
  • Licensing a server—If you did not license your server during the installation, you can apply a Carbonite Availability and Carbonite Migrate license using the console.
• Activation—Review Licensing and activation terminology for details on the amount of time you have to activate your license. When you are ready to activate your licenses, you can chose to activate them one at a time or in groups.
  • Activating a single license—Activate a license on a single server. You can repeat this process for other servers.
  • Activating multiple licenses—Activate licenses on more than one server.

If you are participating in the Carbonite Metered Usage program, your licensing and activation is different. For basic information, see Preparing a target server for Metered Usage. For complete details, see the help link in the Metered Usage Web Portal.