Licenses
You might receive a ton of licenses from your reseller. If they are PDFs, forward them accompanied by the ESN’s of your routers to the huawei support and let them take care of it, it’s a painful process otherwise. Once you get the XML license files you may only have to upload one type of license file to your device: the port activation license which is named something like “NetEngine 8000 XXXXX Fixed Port 10GE Upgrade RTU”. If the license shows “Free From Activation” you don’t have to upload & activate it. Note that in some cases all the licenses were already pre-uploaded on the device when new (N.B. You still need to activate manually the license slots per port though).
You can upload them using the How-To I wrote on How-To: Upload files to Huawei VRP devices.
Activating a port upgrade license
<router> tftp 192.168.0.100 get LICNetEngine8000F1A-8H20Q_V800R021_20220631XXXXX.xml
[~router] license activate 2102353XXXXXXXX.xml [~router] display license Active License : 2102353XXXXXXXX.xml License state : Normal Revoke ticket : No ticket License mode : common No relevant customer information Product name : NetEngine 8000 Product version : V800R012 License Serial No : LIC20210XXXXXXX Creator : Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Created Time : 2021-08-25 11:22:33 ------------------------------------------------------------- Feature name : CRFEA5 Authorize type : comm Expired date : PERMANENT Trial days : -- Item name Item type Value Description ------------------------------------------------------------- LIC20210XXXXXXX -- 10 NetEngine 8000 F1A-8H20Q Fixed Port 10GE Upgrade RTU LIC20210XXXXXXX Resource 10 NetEngine 8000 F1A-8H20Q Fixed Port 10GE Upgrade RTU Item name (View)Resource License Command-line ------------------------------------------------------------- LIC20210XXXXXXX (License)active port-basic slot <slot-id> card <card-id> port <port-list> Master board license state: Normal.
IMPORTANT: maybe the license is already pre-loaded on the device and you can skip those steps.
Done? Not yet!
Here comes the bitter sweet part. While your devices now got licenses to allow you the use of a bunch of 10, 25, 40, 100 or 400 GE Ports, you can’t just use them.
Indeed, now you will need to activate one license allocation slot to a port before using it:
router# license router# active port-basic slot 0 card 1 port 28
You can see the allocation now being incremented by one:
Easy IPv6 deployments & others 