How to license avaya aura solution 1

[SYSUSER2015]

Hi all, I am installing an AVAYA AURA solution 6.3 on ESXi55 VM, and I don't see how to license it.

I know I have to license all VMs (CM,SM,SMGR...).

Please can you tell me how I can get Host id ?

is there a host ID for each host ?

Thank you

 

[kyle555]

There is a host ID per license manager - that License Manager is WebLM.

System Manager currently has a License Manager/WebLM built in - you should use that and only that unless you have certain apps like Experience Portal that need data center failover and is a totally different discussion.

The license manager has a host ID - you license all your applications to that one host ID, and then you point your applications to that license manager.

You can install any CM, SM, voicemail, whatever. So long as you have a WebLM with valid licenses against the WebLM hostID, you can change whatever CM or SM you want, so long as you point those applications to the WebLM. If your WebLM dies and you install a new one with a new host ID, you'd need to re-host your licenses through Avaya's licensing portal called PLDS to acquire new licenses. Typically, your business partner would do that for you.

Before VMWare, every physical server with System Platform could have a WebLM, and the HostID was the physical MAC address of any of the NICs on that server. Typically, you'd apply the license for a product to the WebLM HostID (physical MAC) on the physical server that application+webLM instance resided on.

System Platform was Avaya's homebrew Xen-based virtualization platform - like VMWare. Avaya's System Platform included a WebLM where VMWare did not. This means that in a purely VMWare environment, you won't be able to host licenses on the hypervisor hosting the virtual machine where you used to be able to do that with System Platform.

Short version is that you should just use the host ID in System Manager and every Avaya application you're running that needs licenses will have a way to point to a WebLM IP, and you should just put in the System Manager IP.

 

[SYSUSER2015]

Thank you keylee for you answer.

If I undrestand I need only Host ID in Weblm? is it correct ?

You said "Host ID in System Manager" ? so Why using Weblm?

How I can get Host ID of System Manager ?

Please Clarify

Thank you

 

[kyle555]

System Manager has it's own WebLM built in, so I was saying you should just use that. You can optionally install a standalone WebLM server, but you wouldn't need to do that for your use case.

In SMGR, from the main landing page, right hand column, halfway down "Licenses" and that'll open a tab, in the lefthand menu "Server Properties", and that'll show your hostID.

 

[SYSUSER2015]

Thank you kyle555

So the HOST ID from SMGR can be used to license CM and Session manager ? it is true?

Please I have installed a virtual .ova of System Manger (ESXI5.5) but I can't open a web access of SMGR. Always it says login or password failed.

I have try to change password bu always same problem

Please can you help in this.

Thank you in advance

 

[kyle555]

Yes, you can license CM and SM against the host id in smgr.

Before you login to smgr for the 1st time, you must change you password under and to the right of the login box.

 

[SYSUSER2015]

Keyle555, I have tried to change the password but always it displays "Failed to login".

Plesae can you give me more details.

thank you

 

[kyle555]

look up in the appendixes of any system manager release notes, it tells you how to reset that admin password.

https://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100158543

 

[SYSUSER2015]

Yes it is ok now , In can login to SMGR.

Thank you kyle555.

Please after loggin to SMGR I have added the ASMA ( Session Manager ) but always in the dashboard I see "No Connection"
when I try to accept new service it displays "The following errors have occurred:
Unable to change service state of Session Manager, ASM - could not connect to server"

in replication, it is synchronised

please can you help on this

Thank you

 

[kyle555]

Now you're going more from a licensing question to an initial setup question.

What docs are you following and what have you done?
Typically, you'd want the SM FQDN in SMRG's hosts file, you'd want a SIP entity assigned in SMGR for the SM's SIP interface, then you'd do an SMNetSetup in the SM CLI and point it to SMGR's IP/FQDN and that would initiate the whole security enrollment and get SM to be a database replication node to SMGR to get it up happy.

In any case, if you can get to WebLM now, you can get that host ID, license your applications, and start tinkering with getting everything set up and configured.

 

[SYSUSER2015]

yes this is I have done

replication is synchrnised but in dahsboard No connecion.

Please find in join the traces of version in SMGR and SM.

Please are there compatible?

thank you

 

[afahmy2016]

Hello Kyle555,
IF i have a duplicate CM servers on VMware, would there be one license file with SMGR HostID to be used for both of them?