The trial license (serial number ending with "50") cannot be deleted using the SnapCenter GUI. If you are using a controller-based SnapCenter Standard license and need to remove the capacity-based trial license from the SnapCenter GUI, you must use MySQL commands to remove the trial license manually.
Before you begin
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SnapCenter Standard controller-based license must be added before you can remove the trial license. Instructions are in the
"Adding a SnapCenter controller-based license using the ONTAP command line" section.
About this task
Removing a trial license manually is only required if you are using a
SnapCenter Standard controller-based license. If you procured a
SnapCenter Standard capacity-based license and add it in the
SnapCenter GUI, the trial license gets overwritten automatically.
Steps
- On the SnapCenter Server, open a command prompt.
- Connect to MySQL: mysql -u root -p
MySQL prompts you for the password.
- Enter the MySQL credentials used at the time of installing SnapCenter.
- Remove the trial license from the database: use nsm; DELETE FROM nsm_License WHERE nsm_License_Serial_Number='510000050';