Skip Licensing

Overview

From a licensed BIG-IQ, you can use the Skip Licensing API to skip the license process for a BIG-IQ license manager or data collection device (DCD). If you are choose to use the regular process to activate the license, you can use this API to retrieve or post the license text.

REST Endpoint: /mgmt/setup/license

Requests

POST /mgmt/setup/license

To set the license text, send a POST to the /mgmt/setup/license endpoint. The JSON in the body can contain the following parameters.

Request Parameters

Name Type Required Description
LicenseText string Yes The license text. This value can be “skipLicense:true” to skip the licensing process for a BIG-IQ license manager or data collection device (DCD). Otherwise if using the regular licensing process, this value can be the license text received from the F5 licensing web portal.

Query Parameters

None

Response

The JSON in the POST’s response can include the following parameters.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Name Type Description
LicenseText string The license text. This value can be “skipLicense:true” to skip the licensing process for a BIG-IQ license manager or data collection device (DCD). Otherwise, this value can be the license text received from the F5 licensing web portal.

Permissions

Role Allow
device_manager Yes
License_Manager Yes

GET /mgmt/setup/license

To retrieve the license text send a GET request to the /mgmt/setup/license endpoint.

Request Parameters

None

Query Parameters

None

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Name Type Required
LicenseText string The license text. This value can be “skipLicense:true” to skip the licensing process for a BIG-IQ license manager or data collection device (DCD). Otherwise, this value can be the license text received from the F5 licensing web portal.

Permissions

Role Allow
device_manager Yes
License_Manager Yes

Examples

None