Overview

The Centralized License Manager (CLM) provides simplification of network function license management. With CLM, operators can flexibly control license entitlement and monitor license usage for their managed network functions. The CLM server communicates with the managed network as well as the license key repository that is used to store the license keys for network functions.

CAUTION Service Disruption

A CLM instance is node-locked to the server where it is installed.

Network Pool Keys issued by Nokia are tied to a specific CLM instance by its UUID.

Resource and network parameters associated with the CLM server shall not be altered after Network Pool Keys are received for a specific CLM instance.

An operator may migrate a CLM instance within a VM environment only if the server resource and network characteristics remain constant.

Note: The user profile of the user entered in the connection properties of the network function must be configured to use classic CLI for VSR-I, or classic or model-driven CLI for 7x50 SR/XRS.

Note: There are three types of CLM users defined by a system administrator during CLM installation:

• system administrators, who automatically have read/write access to CLM

• users with read-write access to CLM, as defined by the user access control function in Users and Security.

• users with read-only access to CLM, as defined by the user access control function in Users and Security.

See the NSP System Administrator Guide for more information about user access control.