About licensing managed clients when using Symantec Client Security 2.X Business Pack or Symantec Client Security 3.X Business Pack
Situation:
You need to know how to register and license your Symantec Client Security 2.X Business Pack or Symantec Client Security 3.X Business Pack in a managed environment.
Follow the instructions below to obtain and install a license file for managed clients.
To obtain a license file
- Find the serial number that came in the box with your purchase.
The serial number starts with a letter, followed by 10 numbers (For example: F1234567890)
- Register your serial number to request a permanent license file online at the Symantec Licensing and Registration site.
Symantec will send a license file to the email address that you gave when you registered.
- Find the license file in the email message that you received.
- Copy the license file from the email message onto your hard disk, and note where you put it.
- Using a decompression tool, decompress the .zip attachment to produce the license file ending in .slf
Note: Symantec's licensing tool compresses or "zips" license files to make them smaller and quicker to download. These "zipped" files are not self-extracting and require third-party software such as WinZip or PKZip to open. If you are unsure whether you need zip utility software, visit the
WinZip or PKZip Web site to download an evaluation copy. For instructions on how to download and unzip files, read the document
How to zip and unzip files.
Install a license file for managed clients
For clients that are managed through Symantec System Center, license seats are allocated at the server group level, and a client receives its license seat automatically when it checks in with its parent server. When a license seat expires, the client receives a new, valid license from its primary server, if one is available. If a license seat expires, the client no longer receives content updates.
Note: Content licenses cannot be allocated through client groups, only through server groups. After a seat is allocated to a client, it can not be revoked.
To install a license file for managed clients
- Navigate to the Symantec System Center License View.
- In the left pane, right-click a node, and then click All Tasks > Symantec License Management > Manage License Seat Allocations.
See the following example:
- In the Manage License Seat Allocations dialog box, in the Filters group, select the server group in the Server Group drop-down list.
If Manage License Seat Allocations is accessed from a server group node, the server group is preselected.
- Click Add to start the License Allocation Wizard.
- In step 1 of the License Allocation Wizard, click Browse to locate the content license file.
- In step 2 of the License Allocation Wizard, specify the number of license seats from the content license file to allocate to the selected server group.
If you need to change the number of license seats allocated to a server group, read the following document:
Allocating or changing the number of license seats in a server group for Symantec Client Security 3.0/2.0 Business Pack and Symantec AntiVirus 10.0/9.0 Business Pack.
Document ID: 2004060113045455
Last Modified: 03/02/2007
Date Created: 06/01/2004
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