PLDS vs ADI Licensing and WebLM for Server Edition Confusion 3

[NYSTECH]

I will be installing a 9.1 Server Edition system with 3 or 4 remote IP500 with PRIs for each site.. (This is not going to be Virtual deployment) This is 1st time we are using PLDS to license the systems and I am confused reading documentation about it.. My questions are

1. Do I definitely need a WEBLM Server if I am using PLDS to license system. ( I think yes)
2. If I do need a WEBLM server, do I need a separate server for that or does it co reside on the Sever Edition and is it a check box I select during ignition? I do not remember seeing it on other installations of Sever Edition. I do know in Manager there is a Remote tab in licensing where the IP address of the WEBLM goes.
3. If the WEBLM server application does not come on the install disc, I assume I need to download it from support site.. Is there different versions of WEBLM.. One for IPO Office and on for say Enterprise systems like Comm Manager. Or it works for either?
4. When activating the licenses, what host should I use? The MAC address of the IP Office Server Edition or the Mac/IP of the sever WEBLM resides.
and what about the PRI licenses. what host do they get activated on?


I am still going through the DOCS but any help would be appreciated..

 

[kyle555]

I don't believe so. Basically you use the PLDS Host ID in the IP Office server or IP500. You have license entitlements in PLDS, you apply them to various host IDs for your server and IP500 and the output of PLDS is text strings similar to ADI that you add as normal in the licensing of IPO.

Just check out the license fields in a 9.1 and you'll see what I mean.

If you're getting into IPO as a branch off Aura, things get a little different and you'd point your IPOs to a central WebLM but that's a whole other ballgame.

 

[derfloh]

In R9.1 the PLDS host I'd is used to link the licenses against as told by Kyle.

I heard that R10 will support licensing against a WebLM server. It can be the one delivered with server edition or it can be a virtualized WebLM. Somewhere (I think under AURA or Session Manager) on support.avaya.com you can download a OVA to install one.

 

[sizbut]

As the guys are saying it can be whatever model you want to support. The IP Office (standard IP500 V2 or Linux SE primary) can upload a PLDS file issued against its own host ID, no Web LM server involved. Or it can be configured to point at a separate WebLM server and request individual license instances from that server.

Stuck in a never ending cycle of file copying.

 

[derfloh]

But WebLM at the moment only if IPO works as an Aura branch.

 

[NYSTECH]

Thanks to all..