After you purchase a license and you acquire the corresponding license file, you need
to install the license on M8195A.
You can install the new license in the following ways:
1. In Keysight License Manager, click the File menu, and then select Install....
An Install License File(s) window appears. In this window, browse to the
location where you saved the license file. Select the license file, and then
click the Open button.
2. To manually install a license by entering the appropriate license file
information, click the Tools menu, click Enter License Text.... The License
Text Entry and Installation dialog box appears.
Type in the license data exactly as you received from Keysight. Click the Install
button to install the license.
3. On Windows-based systems, you can install the license by copying the
license file into the license directory
C:\Program Files\Keysight\licensing.
Once the licenses are installed, you can use the Keysight License Manager to view all
licenses for the local system as depicted in the following figure.
Options –U02, -U04, -SEQ, -16G, and –FSW are upgradable using the Keysight
License Manager (KLM); see Table 3.
Observe following steps while installing licenses:
1. Close the firmware of the M8195A
2. Install the licenses using KLM
3. Start the firmware of the M8195A. The firmware finds the new licenses in
KLM and installs them in the M8195A.
In case of an upgrade from one channel (-001) to four channels (-004) following
steps must be observed:
1. Close the firmware of the M8195A
2. Install license -U02 using KLM
3. Start the firmware of the M8195A. The firmware finds the new license –U02
in KLM and installs it in the M8195A.
4. Close the firmware of the M8195A
5. Install license -U04 using KLM
6. Start the firmware of the M8195A. The firmware finds the new license –U04
in KLM and installs it in the M8195A.