Activating a Device’s Pre-Installed and Additional Product Licenses

In this exercise, you use a capability request to automatically create standalone device ABCVPN5050-3, claim it for customer account BarryPhoto, map the VPN5050 and 10MbpsVPN5000 product entitlements to it, and activate the licenses.

To activate the pre-installed product and additional product licenses of standalone device ABCVPN5050-3

1. In the End-User Portal, click Activation & Entitlements > List Entitlements. The List Entitlements page appears.
2. In the table, note that Available quantity and Total quantity for pre-installed product VPN5050 are both 5. Also note the VPN5050 Activation ID; you will use it in Step 4.
3. In the table, note that Available quantity is 8 and Total quantity is 10 for product 10MbpsVPN5000. Also note the 10MbpsVPN5000 Activation ID; you will use it in Step 4.
4. In the command prompt window, type and enter the following command to create the activation request for pre-installed product VPN5050 and additional product 10MbpsVPN5000:

caprequestutil -id IdentityClient.bin -host ABCVPN5050-3 -type FLX_CLIENT
-activate activation_ID_A 1 -activate activation_ID_B 1 mycapabilityrequest.bin

where IdentityClient.bin contains publisher demo and publisher identity ABCNetworks you added in the Setup topic, activation_ID_A is the pre-installed product VPN5050 activation ID, activation_ID_B is the product 10MbpsVPN5000 activation ID, and mycapabilityrequest.bin is the activation request in binary format.

5. When the command prompt returns, type and enter the following command to print the activation request for pre-installed product VPN5050 and product 10MbpsVPN5000:

printbin mycapabilityrequest.bin

6. Review the activation capability request, which looks similar to:

MessageType="Capability request"

Vendor=demo

MessageTime="May 7, 2016 1:43:48 PM"

ResponseTime="Dec 31, 1969 6:00:00 PM"

SourceIds=ABCVPN5050-3

RequestHostIDType=String

RequestHostID=ABCVPN5050-3

MachineType=Unknown

HostType=FLX_CLIENT

IsServer=false

IdentityName=ABCNetworks

DesiredRights=(ActivationID=b890-f02f-b5f2-45e8-808a-86fd-3341-7d42:1

ActivationID=a931-4c60-1080-4a92-8e8b-1e62-eebe-8a53:1)

RequestOperation="Normal request"

7. In the End-User Portal, click Devices > Offline Device Management. The Offline Device Management page appears.
8. For Upload type, select Generate license. Click Browse and select the mycapabilityrequest.bin activation request file in the <FlexNet_Embedded_install_dir>\bin\tools directory, then click Upload.
9. Download the capability response file using the link offered by the application and save the file as <FlexNet_Embedded_install_dir>\bin\tools\ABCVPN5050-3.bin. The exact behavior varies slightly, depending on your browser and operating system.
10. In the command prompt window, type the command

printbin ABCVPN5050-3.bin

where ABCVPN5050-3.bin is the name of the capability response file you saved in Step 9.

11. Review the capability response, which looks similar to:

MessageType="Capability response"

ServerIDType=String

ServerID=BACK_OFFICE

SourceIds=BACK_OFFICE

Lifetime=86400

ResponseTime="May 8, 2016 9:13:43 AM"

RequestHostID=ABCVPN5050-3

RequestHostIDType=String

MachineType=Unknown

EnterpriseID=61135

License=(Name=Encryption_Throughput Vendor=demo Version=1.0

Expires=8-may-2017 Count=10 HostID=ABCVPN5050-3 Issued=8-may-2016

Start=7-may-2016 Issuer="My Corporation")

License=(Name=SimultaneousUsers Vendor=demo Version=1.0 Expires=8-may-2017

Count=5 HostID=ABCVPN5050-3 Issued=8-may-2016 Start=7-may-2016

Issuer="My Corporation")

License=(Name=Redundancy Vendor=demo Version=1.0 Expires=8-may-2017

Uncounted HostID=ABCVPN5050-3 Issued=8-may-2016 Start=7-may-2016

Issuer="My Corporation")

License=(Name=Encryption_Throughput Vendor=demo Version=1.0

Expires=8-may-2017 Count=5 HostID=ABCVPN5050-3 Issued=8-may-2016

Start=7-may-2016 Issuer="My Corporation")

12. In the End-User Portal, click Activation & Entitlements > List Entitlements. The List Entitlements page appears.
13. On the List Entitlements page, note that VPN5050 Available quantity is 4 and Total quantity is 5, and that 10MbpsVPN5000 Available quantity is 7 and Total quantity is 10.
14. Log out of the End-User Portal or continue with License Servers.