Dell NetWorker Licensing Overview

Unlock the complexities of Dell NetWorker Licensing with our comprehensive guide. We delve into the intricacies of license files, highlighting the differences between unserved and served licenses. Our step-by-step walkthrough of the Dell NetWorker licensing process ensures you have all the knowledge at your fingertips. For more detailed information, refer to the official Dell NetWorker Licensing Guide click here.

Welcome to our licensing overview for Dell NetWorker. The Licensing process looks like this. You need to obtain a license file, usually via licensing.dell.com For served licenses, you then need to install a licensing server, which we cover in a separate video. Then the license is applied, to NetWorker itself if unserved or additionally to the License Server if its a served license.

The difference between served and unserved licenses is, that served licenses can be used for multiple NetWorker Server while an unserved license is only valid for a single NetWorker Server. Let's investigate now how a License file looks like. The Unserved License file will usually have some text between hashes which is merely informative You can see that this license file is of the unserved type.

The license file is defined by the information it contains such as the Entitlement; in this case it is of an ‘Increment NetWorker Capacity’ type; the Networker Server HOSTID for which this license is valid only; and information specific to the site that this license was generated for.

The Served license is similar to the Unserved license, but do also contain information about the License Server, such as the host address/IP and the port that is used for communication. License can always be changed from Served to Unserved if needed through the Licensing web page: https://licensing.dell.com/ For further information, please refer to the NetWorker Licensing Guide found at dell.com/manuals.

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