AudioCodes Mediant 800 - Page 978

CHAPTER47 License Key
Mediant 800 Gateway & E-SBC | User's Manual
The Floating License allows you to 'pay as you grow' by eliminating the need to manually purchase
additional SBC licenses each time your capacity requirements increase. You initially purchase a
Floating License based on your estimated SBC capacity requirements. If you later experience
business growth and your devices use more SBC resources than specified by the Floating License,
you are billed for the additional resources.
The Floating License is managed by AudioCodes OVOC, which defines the devices using the
Floating License. These devices, once connected to OVOC, are "open" to use any capacity.
However, capacity is limited by the device's inherent maximum capacity support and by an optional
user-defined limit called Allocation Profile (discussed later in this section), which specifies the
capacity for each SBC license type.
The devices report their SBC resource consumption of each SBC license type to OVOC at fixed
intervals (typically, every five minutes). OVOC sends a report to AudioCodes Cloud License
Manager every 12 hours with all the SBC resource usage in the last 12 hours by the devices
participating in the Floating License. AudioCodes analyzes the resource consumption reports in the
Cloud License Manager on a monthly basis to check if your licensed capacity specified by the
Floating License has been exceeded. If the licensed capacity has been exceeded, AudioCodes
sends you a report detailing the excess capacity and requests that you purchase additional SBC
capacity for your Floating License. For more information on how this is calculated and for ordering
the Floating License, refer to the AudioCodes Fixed Pool and Floating Licenses document. To view
the Floating License report (SBC resource consumption) that the device sends OVOC, see Viewing
Floating License Reports on page941.
Connection between the SBC devices and OVOC is established over SNMP while functionality of
the Floating License service is managed over TCP/HTTPS REST.
When you enable and configure the device for the Floating License mode, the License Key page
(see Viewing the License Key on page927) displays the SBC capacity licenses allocated by the
Floating License in the 'Floating' column (and 'Actual' column) under the SBC Capacity group. In
addition, all the local SBC licenses (from the locally installed License Key) in the 'Local' column are
shown crossed out (striked through). The following figure displays an example:
Figure 47-1: SBC Licenses from Floating License
The License Page also displays various information about the Floating License:
Figure 47-2: Floating License Information
■ OVOC Product Key: Product Key of the OVOC tool that is providing the Floating License.
■ Mode: "Floating License"
■ License Server Status: Connectivity status with OVOC. For more information, see Viewing
the License Key on page927.
The device sends the following SNMP alarms relating to the Floating License:
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