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leemedz
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Jul 30, 2024

BIG-IQ 8.3 - no BIG IQ Central Management option

Trying to build a BIG IQ v 8.3 on Hyper V but I keep running into an issue where I can licence the box using a trial licence (all appears to be working as expected) create the Master Keys and reset t...
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  • leemedz's avatar
    leemedz
    Dec 14, 2024

     

    Went back to have a look at this again today and somehow for the first time looked closely at the Product Name column and then proceeded to  call myself many variations of an idiot. 🙄

     

     

    Not sure how long it has taken me to spot the blindingly obvious but it has been a while. Up till now I had been applying one of the BIG-IQ Centralised Management (CM) licences as highlighted in the red box. Tried one of the BIG-IQ Virtual Edition (VE) licences and it works exactly as it should with the option I wanted available. 

     

    Thanks to everyone who has offered assistance with this - next time I will try and pay a little bit more attention to what I am doing. 😉 

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Paulius
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This could be a limitation of the license that you're applying. Have you tried running through the CM install using the "Skip License" option?

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leemedz
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Jul 31, 2024

I would be surprised if it is a limitation of the licence since it is a VE Trial Edition version. Also I activated this using the Automatic option and it worked as I would expect so I don't see it being a limitation and while I could be wrong though it doesn't feel right to me.    

Re: using the 'Skip License' option - I did try that and that gives me the option to create a BIG-IQ Data Collection Device or a License Manager but the option I require is still greyed out.