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Roland Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 10:41 AM

Floating licenses available from a different hardware than the master PBX

Floating licenses available from a different hardware than the master PBX.

Reason: A restart of the master PBX to load new licenses can be difficult.

For example: An IP address in the PBX General Config from where the licenses can be loaded.

Alternatively: License update without restart

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Christoph Künkel (innovaphone) Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 11:20 AM

Re: Floating licenses available from a different hardware than the master PBX

Roland,

good point!
However, I think this can be done today already. So I will move this discussion to the general discussion forum and we can sort it out. If this still ends up in a missing feature, I will move it back

Christoph

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Christoph Künkel (innovaphone) Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 11:34 AM in response to Roland

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Re: Floating licenses available from a different hardware than the master PBX

We have had the same request when designing the PBX hosting scheme . The solution is to install a dedicated license master and to install all licenses there.

The old PBX-master would then be re-configured to run as a PBX-slave with license only flag and the license master as master link.

The scheme is described in the wiki Hosting article.

Does that fit your requirement?

Best Regards, Christoph

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Roland Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 02:36 PM

Re: Floating licenses available from a different hardware than the master PBX

Thx Christoph,

Nice!

This means only the master and standby must be reconfigured and pick up the licenses from the license server? The standby must be reconfigured to a slave-standby?

The License distribution to the slave PBX is still done by the master?

Is it possible for such a re-design the licenses get transferred from the master hardware to a new hardware?

Is there any already sufficient practical experience?

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Christoph Künkel (innovaphone) Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 03:25 PM

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Re: Floating licenses available from a different hardware than the master PBX

Roland,

yes, only master needs a re-configure. Yes, the license distribution works muli-level.

Transferring licenses is a process known as Invalidation and is supported in my.innovaphone. So yes, you can do this.

Not sure if the practical experience is sufficient

but yes, as said before, we do this in our own hosting implementation.

The only thing I really never thought about so far is how to configure the master-standby (as you can see, this I've never done before in this scenario). If I were to try this out, I would still configure the master-standby as master-standby (that is, don't change at all). The reason is that a master-standby anyway uses the replicated licenses from the master, so I would assume that there is no need (nor use) for the standby to talk to the new license master.

Regards, Christoph

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Roland Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 07:31 PM

Re: Floating licenses available from a different hardware than the master PBX

At the moment we are planning a upgarde to v10. We will try this variant and share the results here.

Thanks and regards
Roland

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Roland Thursday, 23 October 2014, 07:03 AM

Re: Floating licenses available from a different hardware than the master PBX

Christoph, I've thought about it and have to ask again.

Must not continue bound the license to the existing "old" master hardware?

The license server distributes the appropriate licenses to the master PBXs.

That is, the license must remain valid for the master Pbx.

The license server must perhaps also distribute to various master.

Then it must be decided which master gets which licenses.

Please, can you check this in your pbx?

Thanks

Roland

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Christoph Künkel (innovaphone) Tuesday, 28 October 2014, 03:40 PM

Re: Floating licenses available from a different hardware than the master PBX

Hi Roland,

the existing licenses must be "moved" to the new License Master of course. This should be possible in my.innovaphone.

The license master behaves like the master PBX today. It announces all licenses to all slaves and the slaves report usage. You can set limits in the slaves PBX/Config.

Regarding the old "master standby": I would still run it as "master standby", even though the "master" is now a "slave with license only".

Looking forward to hearing your findings!

Best Regards, Christoph

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Roland Thursday, 6 November 2014, 11:01 AM

Re: Floating licenses available from a different hardware than the master PBX

Now we decided to use the old master PBX hardware including licenses as ldap-master and license-server. And the previous ldap-master as new master-PBX. Then it isn't necessary to move any PBX licenses.

Thanks for the support

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