Overview

To license devices, you obtain a license file from your Verdiem representative and then activate it through the Administrator Console.

This article describes the process to add or remove a license file.

Process

1. Log in to the server computer.

2. You will have one of the following options for saving the license file to the server’s local drive:

   • Save the file attachment from the email.
   • Download the file from the customer portal address you were given.
     
3. The license file is an XML (Extensible Markup Language) file. If you obtained a .zip file, extract it and confirm that the license file shows the .xml extension. If the file does not show the .xml extension, open it in Notepad to confirm that it is an XML file, close it, and change or add the extension. If that does not work or the file is not an XML file, contact your Verdiem representative to resolve the problem.

4. Open the Administrator Console in the Configure menu , and then click License Management.

5. Click Add License File, and do the following:

   1. For Files of type, manually type *.* to show all files.
   2. Navigate to your license file location, select the file, and click Open. If you want to remove an existing license, select the file, and click Delete.

If you add a license file, its information is displayed in the Administrator Console, indicating the number of licenses, where the license came from, etc. Devices are licensed immediately, which means you do not need to restart the service.

When you remove a license file, devices that are associated with it become unlicensed. At that point, the power use on those devices is no longer managed or measured.