Licensing requirements
Before installing the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution, you must obtain the licenses listed in the following sections.
Note
BMC recommends that you obtain BMC Support credentials and original licenses before you begin the installation. You can also use temporary or trial licenses for the installation.
BMC Remedy AR System server licenses
Obtain BMC Remedy AR System server (AR System server) licenses for the following products:
- BMC AR Remedy System - Cloud Portal and Database - Primary
- For a high availability (HA) installation, you also need to obtain the license keys for BMC AR Remedy System - Cloud Portal and Database - Secondary.
To obtain HostIDs for procuring permanent AR System server licenses for the AR System server, complete the steps in the following sections, according to platform.
Note
The HostID is the Physical Address for Microsoft Windows and the MAC address (Hwaddr) for Linux based operating systems.
For additional information about licenses, see the License overview topic in the BMC Remedy AR System online technical documentation.
For Windows platforms:
- Open a command prompt.
- Run the command:
ipconfig /all
Record the Physical Address.
For example:Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-AC-02-42
- Remove all the hyphens from the value (for example,
005056AC0242
). - Send the HostID to BMC Customer Support and request the corresponding AR System server license.
For Linux platforms:
For Linux platforms, you must obtain the MAC address, and convert it to lowercase.
- Open a terminal.
- Run the command:
ifconfig
Record the Hardware Address.
For example:HWaddr 00:50:56:AC:04:10
- Remove all the colons from the value and convert uppercase letters to lowercase (for example,
005056ac0410
). - Send the HostID to BMC Customer Support and request the corresponding AR System server license.
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