Notes and functional enforcements for licensing
This section provides details about functional enforcements and notes for licensing.
You must provide a valid license during the product installation. If you do not provide a valid license, a 60 days of trialware license is installed.
If you fail to procure or renew your license before the expiry date, a grace period of 60 days is provided without any effect on the product usage.
If you fail to procure or renew your license after the grace period, the services fail to start after a system restart or when the services such as, NFS, CIFS, FTP, S3, and Veritas Data Deduplication are restarted.
Veritas reserves the right to ensure entitlement and compliance through auditing.
If you encounter problems while licensing this product, visit the Veritas Licensing Support website.
Table: Functional enforcements of Access Appliance licensing
Enforcement | Action |
|---|---|
During Validity | None |
During Grace period | Persistent message (in the Access Appliance Management Console only) |
Post Grace Period | Before you restart the node, you can stop the NFS, CIFS, FTP, S3, and Veritas Data Deduplication services, but you cannot start the services again (even if you have not restarted the node). After you restart the node, the NFS, CIFS, FTP, S3, and Veritas Data Deduplication do not come online on the restarted node. |
If you add the Access Appliance license using the Access Appliance management console:
When you restart a node after the license is expired, the NFS, CIFS, FTP, and S3 services are stopped on that node. The status of the service appears online if the service is running anywhere in the cluster, even if it is offline on this node. You can check the alerts on each node individually to see if the service is online or offline locally.
You can start, stop, and check the status of NFS, CIFS, FTP, S3, and Veritas Data Deduplication services. However, you cannot start, stop, or check status of the FTP service.
You can provide the license file from the local system only because the
scppath is not supported through the Access Appliance management console.