Pulse Licensing

Some Pulse features require a software license key. The license key is linked to the MAC address of the Pulse Server.

This article describes the "Generation 3" licening, supported by Turbine ver. 4.7 and INCA ver. 2.7. For licenseing in previous versions of software, see Pulse Licensing - Generation 1 and 2.

Pulse License Activation Code and License Keys

General

Zenitel generates a ‘License Activation Code’ (LAC) which can be regarded as the actual article. In order for Zenitel to be able to generate the actual License Key, the License Activation Code must be registered at Zenitel together with the MAC-address of the station that serves as a Pulse server.

Registration can be done by reporting the MAC-address and LAC in an e-mail to licensing@zenitel.com. More than one LAC can be listed on the registration form. All listed License Activation Codes together with the MAC address will be used to generate a single License Key which will enable all licensed functions.

The License Key will be shipped to the customer’s e-mail address. As the License key is rather complex, it should be inserted in the set-up program using the copy/paste function.

Additional licences

Additional licenses can be purchased at any time. Any new license will be added to already purchased licenses for the same hardware. A new license key will be issued to replace the existing license key; this will cover all the new and old legal licenses.

Inserting the license key

Pulse Server: Input license key

• Obtain the license key from your STENTOFON supplier
• Log on to the web page of the Pulse Server station
• Select Station Administration > Licensing
• Press the Insert License button
• Enter the 24 or 36 character key string in the New License field
• Accept the Terms and Conditions by pressing "Yes"

Licenses

The following licenses are available:

Name	Item Numbers	Comments	Max allowed
Enterprise	100 9660 002	License for Pulse Trunking and SDK/API support. Allows connection to up to 50 other Pulse systems, or to supported 3rd party iPBX	1
Intercom Extensions	100 9661 001	For every station beyond 16, one such license is required. The first 16 stations do not require any license	48
VS-Client Extensions	100 9661 101	For every VS-Client (SoftClient) one such license is required	10
SIP Client Extensions	100 9661 201	For every 3rd party SIP telephone one such license is required	10
TelTrunk	100 9662 001	License for GSM telephone gateway and Analog telephone gateway. One license per gateway	10

Software requirements

The Generation 3 license requires that the Pulse Server is a:

• Turbine series intercom with firmware 4.7.x.x, or
• INCA series intercom with firmware 2.7.x.x

Free License period

Pulse comes with a 60-day Grace period where all the functions can be tested without the need to purchase any license. Total available clients and trunks can be configured. Grace timer starts running when station is connected for first time. Timer is running only when station is running. Factory reset and firmware upgrade will not reset the Grace period timer.

Grace period timer is visible under:

• Station Administration > Licensing
• Server Management > Server Monitoring

Grace period shown in web interface

Additional information

Stations in SIP mode

When an Vingtor-Stentofon IP station is used in SIP mode, it is allowed to connect to Pulse server. It will use one SIP Client Extensions license. The station will not take any Intercom Extension license to register.

Licensing changes 4.2 > 4.7

There were changes to how license policing is done in VS-IS 4.7 compared to VS-IS 4.2. Most notable difference are: 1.All Client Licenses will be free and will be supported in BASIC & ENTERPRISE This is to be consistent with our SIP mode which will also offer these feature free of charge 2.PULSE BASIC & ENTERPRISE will support up to 64 Vingtor-Stentofon stations To be able to use more than 16 stations, an Intercom extension license needs to be installed for each additional station

3.PULSE ENTERPRISE license will be a license offered to advanced users, by this we mean integrators that want to get the max out of PULSE technology. This license enables the following:

a.SDK Support

b.Pulse Trunking (setup as many trunks as you want to as many systems as you want, until max is reached, 50 trunks per server)

4.IP Stations in SIP mode now use Pulse-Server-SIP Client Extensions license. Before, IP Station in SIP mode would take regular Pulse station license and would not require 3rd party SIP license.

Backwards compatibility support

Both Pulse clients and Pulse server need to be upgraded to firmware version 4.7 for new Pulse licensing system to work. E.g. a combination of clients with new firmware and server with previous firmware can cause licence policing issues. Since there is no client license policing anymore, all previously client policed licenses are automatically enabled. Old Turbine 3.0.x and VS-IS 4.2 server licenses are automatically recognized and created by License manager. VS-IS 4.2 Pulse Enterprise license is also mapped to the new Enterprise license item.