3.3.1 Distributing product licenses to management relay servers

In a multi-server configuration, some of the product licenses registered on the primary management server can be distributed to management relay servers. Distribute the product licenses to management relay servers if you want to limit the number of manageable devices within each range of shared licenses. To distribute product licenses to a management relay server, execute the distributelicense command to configure product license information on the management relay server.

Note that you cannot distribute a product license to a management relay server on which a product license has already been registered. You cannot distribute product licenses that are already registered in a management relay server to another management relay server.

After product licenses are distributed, ranges of shared licenses are automatically formed. The number of licenses held in the range of shared licenses whose sharing source is the primary management server is equal to the total number of licenses on the primary management server subtracted by the number of licenses that have been distributed to management relay servers. The number of licenses held in the range of shared licenses whose sharing source is the distribution-target management relay server is equal to the number of licenses distributed from the primary management server.

The following figure shows an example configuration of ranges of shared licenses, and product license information in each range of shared licenses when product licenses are distributed.

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The product licenses on the primary management server can be re-distributed any number of times. In the following cases, re-distribute the product licenses to each management relay server.

You want to change the ranges of shared licenses
You have registered additional product licenses on the primary management server in order to address the lack of licenses in a range of shared licenses.

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