Licensing Elvis 4 Server

To activate an Elvis server and the associated user licenses perform the following steps:

Step 1. Install and start the server.

Step 2. Open the following page in your browser:

http://<yourserver>:<port number>/admin

Example: localhost:8080/admin.

Note: You can log in using the default admin user with password changemenow, make sure to change the password in the internal user properties.

The page will open in Fallback mode (see below) and will display a warning.

Step 3. Open the License page by clicking License in the top left corner.

Step 4. Enter your serial number, name and e-mail address and click OK.

An overview appears of the products that you can activate.

Step 5. Select a Server product.

Step 6. Specify the number of licenses to activate for each product.

Note: By default, all available licenses are entered.

Step 7. Click Activate.

If all goes well your activation code is successfully activated.

Step 8. Click OK.

The Activation page reloads and all options in the menu on the left are now available.

About Fallback

When a server is not licensed, it will start up in fallback mode. In this mode, only the admin page and activation page are available and only super users configured in internal-users.properties.txt will be able to log in to the admin pages. All other functionality of the server is not available while in fallback mode.

Note: The server can also startup in fallback mode when it fails to properly start for other reasons. When this happens it will be indicated on the admin landing page and error details will be available in the server logs.

Known issues

On Linux after activating the license, the server does not always restart automatically. You may have to restart it manually (keep an eye on the server logs).