Viewing and updating license settings by using the CLI

You can use the command-line interface (CLI) to view and update your license settings.

Your system provides two license options: Physical Disk Licensing and Capacity Licensing . To view and update your system license settings:

The system provides enclosure licensing. You can view and update your license settings:

  1. Issue the lslicense CLI command to view the current license settings for the system.
  2. Issue the chlicense CLI command to change the licensed settings of the system.
    Attention:
    • License settings are entered when the system is first created; do not update the settings unless you change your license.
    • To select Capacity Licensing, run the chlicense command with one or more of the -flash, -remote, and -virtualization parameters. If the physical disks value is nonzero, these parameters cannot be set.
Parent topic: Using the CLI