Enable pay-as-you-go billing on an air-gapped cluster

You can enable pay-as-you-go billing for an air-gapped cluster with no outbound connectivity by acquiring a pay-as-you-go account key from Portworx.

note

Once you enable a pay-as-you-go license for an air-gapped cluster with no outbound connectivity, you currently can't switch to any other license.

Prerequisites

• An air-gapped Portwox Kubernetes cluster
• An air-gapped SaaS key from Portworx

Enable pay-as-you-go billing on an air-gapped cluster

1. Activate the pay-as-you-go license key that you received from Portworx.

   pxctl license activate saas --key <pay-as-you-go-key>

2. Verify if the license is activated.

   /opt/pwx/bin/pxctl  status

   Status: PX is operational
   Telemetry: Disabled or Unhealthy
   Metering: Healthy
   License: PX-Enterprise Usage-Based-Airgapped
   Node ID: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-0d74f9801263

3. Download your consumption report.

   pxctl service usage-report –download \
   –month <month number to download report for> \
   —year <year for which to download report>

This command creates a tarball on your system, which you can email to the support team for billing.