Migrating applications from perpetual licenses to subscription license

Last Updated : Sep 21, 2020 |
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Before you begin
Before you perform this procedure, ensure that you delete the perpetual licenses, license entitlements of which are transferred to Avaya OneCloud™ Subscription, from your WebLM server.
For information about managing the WebLM servers for licenses, see WebLM management.
  1. Place your Avaya OneCloud™ Subscription system order with Avaya.
  2. Obtain your Access key and Secret key.
    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
    For more information, see Obtaining the Access key and Secret key.
  3. Install and configure the Usage Metering Collector.
  4. Use the Usage Metering Collector to add WebLM to your Avaya OneCloud™ Subscription system.
    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
    For more information, see Adding a WebLM server to an Avaya OneCloud Subscription system.
    After the Usage Metering Collector successfully registers to the WebLM server, Usage Metering automatically retrieves the subscription license for the subscribed applications from the Avaya back-office systems and installs it on the WebLM server.
  5. Do the following if your on-premise application is of an earlier version than the minimum version supported by Avaya OneCloud™ Subscription:
  6. Use the Usage Metering Collector to add the on-premise applications that are entitled by the subscription license to your Avaya OneCloud™ Subscription system.
    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
    Note:
    The on-premise applications that are entitled by the subscription license can run by using the subscription license only after you add the applications to the Avaya OneCloud™ Subscription system.
    For more information, see Adding an application to the Avaya OneCloud Subscription system.
  7. Register the applications to the Avaya Global Registration Tool.
    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
    For more information, see Technical onboarding of applications to the Avaya Global Registration Tool.
  8. Manage the Avaya OneCloud™ Subscription system state.
    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
    For more information, see Managing the Avaya OneCloud Subscription system state.
Result
Avaya OneCloud™ Subscription uses the subscription license to enable application entitlements and capacities. The billing is done based on your fixed quantity subscription offer.