BusinessPhone Communication Platform 4.0
Dialogs

## Voice Channel Licensing

Note

This feature is only available for BusinessPhone V5.0 (ASB 150 02 R12) or later versions!

This dialog shows the current IPU licensing status and further information about the voice channel settings:

- License type

- Here you can find out if you have a temporary or a final license. If the system is using a temporary license, the remaining operation hours are displayed.
- By default a temporary license for 28 days is activated when installing the Compact Flash card. If no final license file is copied onto the Compact Flash card before the temporary license expires, the IPU board will block automatically all VOIP traffic. In this case, every request for a voice channel will cause a new entry in the warning log (Fault DB with value D2=80H) and the call setup will be rejected.
- Once the temporary license has expired, it cannot be reactivated by exchanging the Compact Flash card by another one with a temporary license.
- The final license has to be ordered separately. Before you can request a final license from the Ericsson License Center (ELC), you must install the IPU in an ASB 150 02 system, in order to export the temporary license by using the Export License File button in this dialog.
- The exported license, which contains the MAC-address of the IPU, the serial number of the Compact Flash Card and the number of the temporary licensed voice channels (always 16 voice channels) will be used by the ELC to generate the final license which matches the customer’s IPU, Compact Flash Card, as well to the number of ordered voice channels.

Note

The final licenses for 4 and 8 voice channels of ASB 150 02 R13 are backward compatible and can be used in ASB 150 02 R12 as well, in this case the License type Final will be indicated.

- Original MAC address

- This is an Ethernet address (also called IEEE MAC address), which uniquely identifies a computer that has an Ethernet interface. Unlike the IP number, it includes no indication of where your computer is located.

- Serial number of Flash disk

- This field shows the serial number of the inserted flash disk. The number of the supported bi-directional Voice-over-IP channels on the IPU is defined by a license file on the Compact Flash Card. The name of the license file as well as the number of the different licenses are dependent on the Release of the central software. Please note that the license file will only be delivered in conjunction with a Compact Flash card. In case of license upgrades, the Compact Flash card has to be replaced by the one with the higher license

- Number of voice channels

- The number of available voice channels depends on your license.

Furthermore, you can import or export a license file and view the hardware information on this board.

To access the Voice Channel Licensing dialog, open the “System” menu in the Configuration directory tree. Open the “System parameters” submenu and click on “IPU Board data...”. The Basic IPU Data dialog appears. On top of the dialog, you find a navigation bar. Click on “Licensing” to open the dialog.

#### Actions

Export License File |  | To start the export of your actual license and to open the Export License file dialog. If you are using a temporary license, you must export the license file first before you can request a final license from Ericsson. |
Import License File |  | To start the import of a final license you received from Ericsson. Clicking on this button will open the Import License file dialog. |
Board Info |  | To view the Board Information dialog. |
Reload |  | To discard any changes and to reload the user data. |

### Registration of a new license

You must register every new Voice-over-IP function in order to enable the functionality. The following procedure has to be used for the registration:

- Order the desired final license as stated below.

  Article number of the license | Function
  FALBS 102 40/4 | 4 voice channels
  FALBS 102 40/8 | 8 voice channels
  FALBS 102 40/16 | 16 voice channels

- Connect BMS to the system
- Select the desired IPU and click on the Board configuration button in the Board Information dialog to modify the number of trunk individuals, IP extensions and the IP extension threshold, if necessary.

Note

A new IPU with a temporary license is always displayed as IPU16 (16 voice channels)

- Click on the Board info button to return to the Board Information dialog.
- Click on the Voice Channel Licensing button to read out the current license.
- Export the temporary IPU license to your local computer. By default the filename LICCFG.ULK is chosen, however any other name (*.ULK) can be used as well.
- When receiving the order confirmation number from the order desk, the exported temporary license and the order confirmation number have to be forwarded to the ELC.

Note

After the temporary license has been sent to the ELC, the board configuration should not be modified until the final license has been imported again.

- When the new license file will be received from the ELC, import the license in the reverse manner as it has been exported.

Note

Before BMS imports the new license, it performs automatically a check if the MAC address and the serial number of the Compact Flash card match with the data in the customer system. If the validation fails, BMS will reject the request with an Error message.

Note

The license file has to be stored on the Compact Flash card by using the BMS license import function, see section Import License file. Do not copy the license file manually to the Compact Flash card!

- Shut down the respective IPU.
- Activate the IPU again.

- Based on the used license the IPU is recognized with a different name (IPU4 = 4 voice channels, IPU8 = 8 voice channels, IPU16= 16 voice channels).
- How to upgrade an existing license, please refer to the document Maintenance Instruction(1541-ASB 150 02 Uen).

### Other IPU Board Data dialogs

On top of the dialog, you find a navigation bar that provides access to the following IPU Board Data dialogs:

- Basic Data

- To go to the Basic IPU Data dialog.

- Ports

- To go to the Port configuration data dialog.

- Gatekeeper

- To open the Gatekeeper Data dialog.

- H.323 extension gateway

- To go to the H.323 Extension Gateway Data dialog.

- Licensing

- The dialog you view right now.

- Board Configuration

- To open the Board Configuration dialog.

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