Milesight VMS Enterprise is a professional video management software. For using full functions, users need to get license and activate it. About the operation process, please check the details below.

1. Activate VMS Enterprise

1.1  How to activate in the Wizard interface

After logging into the system, the VMS system client interface will show as below. If you create Owner user and first login into the VMS system, there is a wizard window displayed in the client interface.The wizard will help you to quickly configure and use the VMS system, including some basic configuration page: Security, License, Devices and Storage. If you create a new system, then there is a pop-up wizard as shown below at system’s very first login and once only.

Here you can choose directly to skip wizard or click  button to star wizard, and in the second step of the wizard, we can activate the license.

License

The License wizard will guide user how to activate license. 

There are two options, including: “Enter License Key and I Want Free Trail”. 

Note: Now Mliesight VMS only supports camera access license.

①: Free Trial Activation 

Step1: Click  button. If this is the first time you use the VMS software, then a window will pop up as shown below:

Step2: Select server which a license is registered to and click  button, then a Free Trail information card will show in the License wizard interface as shown below:

Note: The Free Trial with 4 camera access is a time-limited experience license that expires 

in 6 month after activation. You can contact our sales to purchase our license to access more channels.

②: Online Activation

Step1: Click  button and wait for several seconds, a window will pop up as shown below:

Step2: Select server and input activation code, then click the  button;

Note: The format of the activation code is 16-digit hexadecimal, and the letters in it are all lowercase letters.

Step3: After you verify the activation code successfully, the license information card will show in the License wizard interface.

③: Offline Activation

Step1: Click  button. If neither target server nor client computer is not connected to the Internet, then licenses can be activated offline.

Step2: Select server and Input Activation Code, then click  button. Here you can operate according to current step tips.

1.2  How to activate in the Settings interface

Except activate license in the wizard, you also can activate license in the Settings interface, the steps are basically the same as in the “Wizard”. It could be found in the:

“Settings -> System&Servers -> System Settings -> License Activation”:

Click the  button, then the window will pop up as shown below, in this interface, you also can choose “Free Trial” ,  “Online Activation” or “Manual Activation”.

①: Free Trial

Step1: Click  button. If this is the first time you use the VMS software, then a window will pop up as shown below:

Step2: Select server which a license is registered to and click  button, then a Free Trail information card will show in the License wizard interface and as shown below:

Note: The Free Trial with 4 camera access is a time-limited experience license that expires 

in 6 month after activation. 

After trying the free trial, you can choose to contact our sales to purchase the license to obtain the activation code, and add the license in the following steps to directly expand your layouts to 64 channels.

②: Online Activation

Step1: Select server and Input Activation Code, then click the button;
 

Step2: After you verify the activation code successfully, the license information will show in the interface, and you can continue to add more license by clicking  button.

③: Manual Activation

Step1: Click button. If neither target server nor client computer is not connected to the Internet, then licenses can be activated offline.

Step2: Here you can operate according to “current step” tips as shown below: 

1) Click button to export the “LicenseRequest.bin” file and save to your local storage path or flash memory, then click  button. The window will change as step tip2;

2) Copy the address to another online server URL search box and the Milesight License Activation website will show as below. You can upload the previous exported “LicenseRequest_xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx.bin” here;

3) If the activation code is correct and valid, then the website will show as below. You can click  button to download the response file;

4) Import the downloaded license response file from activation website, and click button to activate the license. If you want to import the response file later, you can click  button.

Finally the license has been activated successfully.

Note：

①: How to deactivate in the Settings interface

You can also choose to deactivate your license in the Settings interface and activate it on another computer. For example, when replacing a server: if you want to use this license on another computer, you could deactivate it from this server, and then activate it on another server.

After the operation is successful, a prompt interface will pop up, you can choose to “Reactivate” on this computer, or click “OK” to deactivate the license from your computer.

②: Multiple Activations

If you want more channels, you can contact the sales to buy the license again, and then activate it directly, the total number of channels will be superimposed on the previous number.

2. Status

After you activate the license successfully, the license will be added to the License Activation list and the working status will be displayed.

There are some other operations as below:

①: Click  button to import the response file to activate the license.

②: Click  button to deactivate the license. After deactivation, this activation code can be reactivated or activated and used on other servers. The free trial license does not have this option.

③: Click  button to delete the license. This option is only for the license whose status is not Working.

④: Click  button to check each license details.

⑤: Click  button to export the license list in the system.

⑥: Click  button to overview usage condition of activated licenses.

Note: Each License can only be registered to one server because license is bound with hardware information (Including: CPU serial number, motherboard serial number, BIOS serial number and the MAC address of the first physical network card) of computer on which server resides. If there is an exceptional occurrence of server, all licenses of the computer on which server resides will become invalid. And once the server starts to run, the licenses will automatically become valid and restore working status.

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