Installing or Updating Licenses Using Device Manager

To install a license on your switch using Device Manager, follow these steps:

  1. Select Licenses from the Admin menu.

You see the Licenses dialog box.

  1. Click the Install tab.

The HostId shows the "VDH=" portion of the serial number. The rest of the number is completed in Steps 3 through 5.

  1. Enter the uniform resource identifier (URI) from which the license file will be retrieved.

You should already have copied the license file provided by Cisco.com or by some other means (for example, through the CLI) to this location.

  1. Enter the target file name in the Target Filename field to specify where the license file will be installed.
  2. Click Install if you are installing, or Update if you are updating.

You see the status of the installation at the bottom of the dialog box, as follows:



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