Add licenses to your clusters using Portworx Central on-premises
Your Portworx Central on-premises deployment includes a highly-available license server and backup server by default. From Portworx Central, you can add and manage licenses for any attached Portworx clusters.
Prerequisites
- A valid Portworx license to add.
- Add at least one Portworx cluster to Portworx Central.
Add a license to Portworx Central
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From the Portworx Central landing page, select the License icon to navigate to the License Entitlements page.
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Select the Licenses link to go to the license management page.
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Select the Import License button.
By default, the License Key option is selected in the Add License window.
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Paste your license key into the License Key text field or upload it from a file, and then select the Import License button to add your license:
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(Optional) To add licenses using a license file, choose File -> select the Browse button to upload a file, and click Import License.
All your licenses appear in the Licenses page:
Assign existing license server to your cluster
Portworx Central enables you to assign an existing license on your license server to a cluster. To assign a license to the cluster:
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Navigate to the Lighthouse -> cluster details page, select the vertical menu icon on your cluster and select Set License Server.
The Assign License Server window displays all existing licenses.
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Select licenses other than the (Default) selected, and click Submit.
Portworx Central displays a confirmation message that the license server is changed on Portworx to the assigned license, and the cluster appears on the Clients page:
You can click the + icon to view all nodes in a cluster and their details.
Related topics
- For information on how to connect a cluster to a license server using
pxctl, refer to the pxctl setls command reference.