TP-Link Omada Pro controller provides centralized management of gateways, switches, and access points from the Software Defined Networking (SDN) platform.
Licenses are required to manage devices centrally with the Omada Pro controller. This guide will introduce how to obtain and assign licenses to your devices.
1. Assign and Manage Licenses for Local Controller
For management and configurations on the Omada Pro Local Controller, each device should be bound with an activated license. Before binding licenses to devices, you need to purchase licenses and assign them to your controller.
1.1 Purchase Licenses
Contact the sales staff to purchase licenses for Omada Pro Local Controller. You will get a license activation code. Then you can use the activation code to add licenses to your controller in online or offline mode according to actual site requirements.
1.2 Add Licenses Online
1. Launch your controller.
2. Go to the License page. Click Add Licenses Online at the upper right corner.
3. Enter the license activation code you obtained from the sales staff, and click Obtain Licenses. Specify the quantity of licenses to add.
4. Click Confirm. The licenses will be assigned to the controller.
Note: If you encoutner an "Operation failed" error message similar to the one shown in the image below, it could be due to the absence of WMIC ( Windows Management Instrtuction Command-line). WMIC is a tool that interacts with the Windows Management Instrumentation(WMI) framwork and supports system operations related to license importing. To install it, please refer to the following links: How to install WMIC Feature on Demand on Windows 11.
1.3 Add Licenses Offline
1. Launch your controller.
2. Go to the License page. Click Add Licenses Offline at the upper right corner.
3. Copy the request code of the current controller. Then click Omada Cloud on the page to redirect to the Omada Cloud (https://omada.tplinkcloud.com).
4. On the Omada Cloud page, log in with your TP-Link ID.
Note: If you don’t have a TP-Link ID, sign up for one and activate it.
5. Go to License > Omada Pro Local Controller. Click Generate License File at the upper right corner.
6. Enter the request code of the controller you copied, enter the license activation code you obtained from the sales staff, and click Verify. Specify the quantity of licenses to add.
7. Click Generate. The license file in .lic format will be generated and save to local.
8. Go back to the Add Licenses Offline page of your controller. Import the license file to the current controller.
9. Click Confirm. The licenses will be assigned to the controller.
1. 4 Migrate Local Licenses
1. Export local licenses from the old controller.
a. Launch your old controller.
2. Get the request code of your new controller.
a. Launch your new controller.
b. Go to the License page. Click Add Licenses Offline at the upper right corner.
c. In the pop-up window, copy the controller's request code.
3. Migrate local licenses on the Omada Cloud.
Note: If you don’t have a TP-Link ID, sign up for one and activate it.
c. Enter the controller’s request code you copied, and import the license file you exported.
4. Add licenses to the new controller.
b. Click Confirm. The licenses will be added to the new controller.
2. Assign and Manage Licenses for MSP Customers
If you have enabled MSP (Managed Service Provider) mode, follow the steps below to assign license to your customers:
2.1 Assign Licenses to Customers
1. Launch your controller.
2. In MSP View, go to License > License Assignment. Click Assign Licenses at the upper right corner.
3. Check your remaining licenses, select the customer, and specify the quantity of licenses to assign.
4. Click Confirm. The licenses will be assigned to the customer.
2.2 Revoke Licenses from Customers
After license assignment, you can revoke licenses if the customer no longer needs them.
1. Launch your controller.
2. In MSP View, go to License > License Assignment. Click Revoke Licenses at the upper right corner.
3. Select the customer and specify the quantity of licenses to revoke.
4. Click Confirm. The licenses will be revoked and can be assign to another customer if needed.
3. Assign and Manage Licenses for Devices
Note:
- One license can be bound with only one device at a time.
- If a device with license bound is removed from the controller, the license will be unbound automatically and can be bound to another device if needed.
3.1 Automatic Binding/Unbinding
For the Controller in Global View
1. Launch your controller.
2. Go to the License page. Enable Auto-Active and enable Auto-Renewal for sites.
For the Controller in MSP View
1. Launch your controller.
2. Go to the License page. Enable Auto-Active and enable Auto-Renewal for customers.
3.2 Manual Binding/Unbinding
If you don’t want the controller to automatically assign device licenses, you can manually bind and unbind device licenses.
1. Launch your controller.
2. Go to the Devices page.
3. Bind or unbind device licenses according to your needs.
- To bind a device license:
Locate an unactivated device and click Activate. In the License Status section, choose an appropriate license to bind. You can bind a new license or a used license (such as the one last bound). If you have many used licenses, you can search by license key or MAC.
- To unbind a device license:
Click an activated device to open the Properties window. In the License Status section, click Unbind. The license will be unbound and can be bound to another device if needed.
Note: When the reassignment times remaining is 0, the license will be unable to be bound to other devices except the current device.
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