EtherHaul™ and MultiHaul™ SW Upgrade Procedure

EtherHaul™ and MultiHaul™

License Upgrade Procedure

May 2020

SIKLU

43 Hasivim St., Petach Tikva 49517, Israel

Phone: +972 3 921 4015 Fax: +972 3 921 4162

www.siklu.com

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Table of Contents

1. Purpose ............................................................................................................................3
2. License Upgrade Overview...........................................................................................3
3. Verifying License Key ....................................................................................................4
4. Loading License Key .....................................................................................................4
5. Licensing Components .................................................................................................6
6. Temporary License.........................................................................................................8

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1. Purpose

Siklu provides easy migration to support multi-Gigabit throughputs, enabling operators to enhance
bandwidth capacity on a “pay as you grow” basis as well as adding features and capabilities according
to their networks evolutions.

You can order the following licenses (capacity steps and features availability depend on your
platform):

• Data rate (capacity)

o EtherHaul [Mbps]: 100 | 200 | 500 | 1000 | 2000 | 5000 | 10000
o MultiHaul [Mbps]: Base Unit 500 | 1800, Terminal Unit 100 | 1000
• Layer 2 networking capabilities – OAM and Resiliency (Ethernet Ring Protection)
• Synchronization – Synchronous Ethernet and IEEE1588
• Encryption – AES
• PSE – Poe Out
• ExtendMM – extended range using low-frequency link as backup

2. License Upgrade Overview

License upgrade keys are generated by Siklu based on radio’s serial number upon order.
The license key is a signature file containing the license configuration that can be loaded on the radio it
was generated for only.
To obtain a license key, submit a request to Siklu using the “License Generation Request Form”,
summarizing the required information. You will be asked to provide the radio’s details (such as product
type, serial number and current license configuration), requested license configuration and license
Purchase Order details.
Once received, and following the receipt of a purchase order, Siklu will generate and send you a license
key for the requested license configuration.

The license key should be loaded to radio using HTTP (recommended) or FTP or TFTP via the CLI or
Web-GUI.

FTP service must be free and not blocked by Firewall/Antivirus or occupied

Note: by other software or services.

If you run into problems using the FTP license upgrade, try using TFTP
(often not blocked or used by other software services).

After license key was loaded, the licensing components should be enabled. If you set radio to factory
default configuration, the license components will be enabled automatically.

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3. Verifying License Key

License key content can be verified by viewing it with any text editor.
Before loading the license key, verify the serial number and license components by checking the
[settings] and [license] sections of the digitally-signature file:

…
…
[settings]
host-id = 00-26-C6-82-EE-11
date = 2014.09.01
time = 08:08:11
type-of-bind = unit
binding-number = F414003133
signing-certificate = d2:a9:cc:4b:78:9b:b5:22

[license]  1=enable, 0=disable

encryption = 0
oam = 1
synce = 1
extended-mm = 0
resiliency = 1
data-rate = 1000
…
…

4. Loading License Key

License key is loaded to the radio using HTTP (GUI only) or FTP/SFTP/TFTP (CLI or Web-GUI).
A running FTP/TFTP/SFTP server has to be available, storing the license key. SW upgrade using the web-
GUI (starting SW version 6.9) is supported also over HTTP. In such case, no FTP server is required.
Any FTP server software available on the web can be used for loading the license key.

Loading licenses using HTTP is the recommended and most convenient way to download and
upgrade the license.

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Note: Before loading the license file to the radio:

Verify the license key name matches the radio’s serial number.
The radio's serial number is available in the CLI or the GUI.

Loading license file using the Web-GUI:

Alternatively, use the CLI to load the license file:

copy license ftp://<ftp_user>:<ftp_password>@<FTP server IP

address>/<license_file_name>

for example:
EH-1200>copy license ftp://user:[email protected]/F124003133.lic
Done

....
License file replaced successfully.

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5. Licensing Components

After license key is loaded, license components ‘permission’ will be enabled, based on the license
configuration and their’ status’ should be enabled by the user.
License components relate to the license ordered, where license components ‘resiliency’ and ‘oam’ are
related to the Layer 2 networking license.

• Status: current configuration

• Permission: max allowed license
Note that when downloading license file using the Web-GUI, you will have to reboot the radio for the
license components to be available for configuration.

1. Checking the license components settings:

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Or via the CLI:

EH-1200>show license

license oam status : enable

license oam permission : enable
license oam config : enable
license oam temporary : disable, remain 30 days, 0 hours, 0 min

license synce status : enable

license synce permission : enable
license synce config : enable
license synce temporary : disable, remain 30 days, 0 hours, 0 min

license encryption status : enable

license encryption permission : enable
license encryption config : enable
license encryption temporary : disable, remain 30 days, 0 hours, 0 min

license data-rate status : 1000

license data-rate permission : 1000
license data-rate config : 1000
license data-rate temporary : disable, remain 30 days, 0 hours, 0 min

license resiliency status : enable

license resiliency permission : enable
license resiliency config : enable
license resiliency temporary : disable, remain 30 days, 0 hours, 0 min

license extend-mm status : enable

license extend-mm permission : enable
license extend-mm config : enable
license extend-mm temporary : disable, remain 30 days, 0 hours, 0 min

2. Configuring license components:

EH-1200>set license data-rate status 1000

Set done: license

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6. Temporary License

The system supports temporary license that is available for 30 days. Once enabled, a countdown timer
will run as long as the system is powered up. When timer expires, the system will reboot and come up
with data rate /functionality based on the available license.
The temporary license can be enabled/disabled for each license component individually.

Caution: Use temporary license with caution and do not forget to apply
permanent license. If the 30 day expire before adding permanent
license, link might go down or some essential functionality, controlled
by license, will be disabled, what might impair service.

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