Introduction
Centralised tracker licensing is a new feature available in Sea360® and Witness ClearWay™ and AdvanceGuard® from V4.8 and above. This significantly simplifies the process of licensing trackers and also removes any licensing considerations when swapping radar in and out on a site. The primary difference compared to the older system is that the tracker software licence is no longer tied to any single item of hardware, instead the licence is tied to the site. This enables us to install the site licence on as many radar or servers as required and as long as the total number of active radar does exceed the licence count for the site then everything will be automatically authorised.
In addition there is a central licence that sits on one or both of the primary servers and this enforces the site limit for concurrent, active trackers. These central licences are tied to the hardware to ensure they remain unique to their designated site.
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You will need to enable the feature in System Settings. Please refer to this documentation: https://navtechradar.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TUN/pages/206504312/System+Settings#Central-Tracker-Licensing. |
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For central licensing to work correctly the entire system has to be time synchronised, when using onboard tracking this requires that the radars have been configured with an NTP source. |
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Both the Management Server Licence and the Tracker Licence components are stored inside the Witness™ licence file. Once this file is loaded by the Management Server on system start-up all the components are automatically deployed to where they are needed.
No further action is required to licence the trackers.
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How many active radar are required
The MAC / Physical address of the Primary Management Server hardware
The MAC / Physical address of the Secondary Management Server hardware, if using a fully redundant configuration
Examples
Example 1
The customer is deploying 8 active radar all of the same model and is using only a single Management Server
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A single Management Server Licence with a tracker limit of 8x radar.
A single Tracker Licence (for use on all radar).
Navtech will require the MAC / Physical address of the server that is hosting the Management Server app.
Example 2
The customer is deploying 10 active radar, 4 of one model, 6 of another, and has also purchased a spare radar for rapid replacement. The customer is not using redundancy.
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A single Management Server Licence with a tracker limit of 10x radar.
A single Tracker Licence (for use on all radar, including the spare).
The models make no difference to the tracker licence
No additional licence is required for the hot spare but it can have the Tracker Licence installed
Navtech will require the MAC / Physical address of the server that is hosting the Management Server app.
Example 3
The customer is deploying 50 active radar, has two spares and is also using a fully redundant setup
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