Manage Licenses

Licenses are required to access and utilize specific features and functionalities of A10 Control and Thunder/vThunder devices that need to be registered with A10 Control. By default, licenses in A10 Control are created and managed with GLM.

NOTE:

In A10 Control, the A10 Control ADO and A10 Control licenses are supported. Adding of Harmony Controller and aGalaxy licenses are not supported in A10 Control. Harmony Controller and aGalaxy licenses used in A10 Control 1.0 deployments will continue to work if deployment is upgraded to A10 Control.

On purchasing a device, the organization's administrator receives the License Token email that includes:

• Ordered information: The license details including license expiry date.
• License Entitlement Token: The license token which is used to activate the device.
• Registration Link: Click the Registration Link, if admin does not have the A10 GLM account. Follow the instructions provided in the email to Confirm your account.
• Appliance Activation Link: Click the Appliance Activation Link, if admin has the A10 GLM account. Log into GLM https://glm.a10networks.com and activate the appliance. For more information, see GLM User Guide.

The licenses can be acquired using the following A10 License Managers:

• Global License Manager (GLM): For A10 Control deployment, you can acquire a license from GLM https://glm.a10networks.com. For more information, see GLM User Guide.
• Enterprise License Manager (ELM): For self-managed A10 control deployment (airgap environment), you can acquire a license from ELM (also called Local License Manager (LLM)). ELM does not require internet connectivity and functions offline. However, you must export licenses from GLM and import them in LLM. For more information, see ELM User Guide.

In A10 Control the following types of licenses are managed:

• Management license: A10 Control and A10 Control ADO licenses are supported. These licenses are used to connect and manage devices. When you install A10 Control, the Trial license is available by default.
• FlexPool device license: Capacity Flexpool and Instance Flexpool license through A10 Control are supported. The flexible pool of licenses can be used to run multiple devices. This license allows you to modify the device license configuration from A10 Control, which you can otherwise achieve through the device CLI.

In the Controller administrator scope, you can choose the license manager and in the Organization administrator scope, you can manage licenses. Log in with super-admin credentials to choose the license manager. All organization administrator accounts use the same license manager after it is selected by the super-admin.