Manual Chapter : Change a pool license for a BIG-IP VE device

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BIG-IQ Centralized Management

  • 7.0.0
Manual Chapter

Change a pool license for a BIG-IP VE device

You must have activated and assigned a license to a BIG-IP VE device before you can change the license.
F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management makes it easy to change a specific license offering on a BIG-IP VE as traffic increases, as requirements for different services come up, or if you need to change the unit of measure for billing purposes. Use this procedure to change a single pool license offering.
  1. On the left, click
    LICENSE MANAGEMENT
    Assignments
    .
  2. Select the check box next to the name of the device you want to change a license for and click the
    Change License
    button.
  3. If this is an unmanaged device, type the BIG-IP system's administrator's
    Username
    and
    Password
    .
    Unmanaged devices
    are devices that are located in your network, but are not in the BIG-IQ system's BIG-IP Inventory list. These fields do not display if this is a managed device.
  4. In the New Assignment area, from the
    License Type
    list, select the type of license pool you want to select another license from.
  5. From the
    License
    list, select the license you want to assign to this device.
  6. Click the
    Assign
    button at the bottom of the screen.