Remember, with 3.x and above you need a License Server.
> Software license will now be required on a per client basis
• To connect to a Nortel Communication Server and make a call
> IP Softphone 2050 RLS 3.0 supports “pool-of-users” concept licensing
• Licensing server for “concurrent use” licensing
• Example – 20 active users – purchase 20 (or more) software licenses
• Runs on a PC which is customer supplied
• Windows Vista, XP, 2000, 2003 Server, 2000 Server – not need be dedicated
server
• Licensing Server components: Licensing Manager, FlexNET Administration
tools (command line tools that come with the installer), LMTool (a GUI
based equivalent to Flexnet), and NortelIP.exe file for providing license
rights to 2050 clients
> Ordering entitlement and fulfillment is via Nortel Keycode Retrieval System
•
> Upon initial installation, client is active under a 30-day “evaluation” period
• Grace period for customers to enable their Licensing Server(s) infrastructure
> Server redundancy
• In event of an active License Server failure – reverts to standby
• Rehosting of License Keys can be handled by local administrator for faster response
> If IP Softphone 2050 is unable to connect to a License Server, an active License (referred to
as a “checkout license”) is then cached for 5 days within the 2050 registry to provide
connectivity
It is give-and-take. With v1/v2, you were supposed to buy a CD for every installed copy of 2050. With v3, you need an activation licence for every concurrent use. The price of the CD and the activation licence are the same so the cost is actually less with v3 if you have a large number of people not using the v3 at the same time.
You are correct bigindian, the reason being that I am using the IP Licence. When you use the new version with the server you are not using the IP Licences from the switch.
There is definitely some confusion here. For any IP Phone (hard or soft v1/v2/v3), you need a ISM on the CS 1000. For a hard IP Phone you separately buy the phone itself. For an IP Softphone you separately either buy the CD (v1/v2) or you buy the activation licence (with v3).
We had one license server up and running for quite a while at our main office supporting 2050's without any issue. We recently installed a second license server at our main data centre so we could roll out 2050's to that team. Now none of the 2050's seem to work. We get registartion errors and it seems like both license servers are responding to license requests when a softphone starts. My question is - do we need two license servers - can we operate two license servers at the same time? This was the design our vendor delivered but once the second box came on line everything stopped working.
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