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title: "2nd Step: Installing the Operations Center License on the Controller"
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To fully operate with all Collectors in the deployment, you must install the cumulative feature license provided to you by Infoblox Sales & Support for the Controller. The license must contain the aggregate count of device licenses and feature entitlements that are provided for all Collectors expected to work with the OC Controller system.

When you receive the Controller appliance and physically install it, it does not automatically contain the licensed features and entitlements present on the Collectors, nor can those entitlements be transferred to the Controller. When you first set up the appliances that you are designating as Collectors in an OC deployment, they are simply operating as standalone NetMRI appliances. Each is separately licensed. The Controller has its own cumulative license file. You install that license in this step, followed by step 2a, re-running `configure server` on the Controller appliance.

To install the Operations Center license for a NetMRI physical appliance, generate a license on your own by using the `license generate` administrative shell command. For more information, see [*license generate command*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42370810).

To install the Operations Center license for a NetMRI virtual appliance:

1. Obtain the Operations Center license through the Infoblox Support Portal at [*http://support.infoblox.com*](http://support.infoblox.com/).
2. Upload the license file provided through the Infoblox Support Portal into the admin account's **/Backup** directory using WinSCP or a similar program.
3. Log in to the administrative shell.
4. In the administrative shell, enter the `license <NameOfLicenseFile> `command and then press **Enter**.  
`admin-na206.corp100.local> ``license <license_file_name.gpg>`  
The server restarts without rebooting the appliance. The server resumes operation after several minutes of processing.

### Step 2a: Re-Run Configure Server

After you install the license for your Controller, you must run the `configure`` ``server` command a second time.

1. After logging in to the Controller appliance, re-run the `configure`` ``server` command:  
`admin-na206.corp100.local> ``configure server`
2. To continue the system setup, press **Y** to respond Yes. To go through the settings you defined in your first run of the `configure`` ``server` command, press Enter at each prompt. (You do not need to change any settings unless changes are required for administrative reasons.) When you come to the end of the `configure`` ``server` command sequence, enter **N** to commit the previously defined settings to the system.
  `Configure the system with these settings? (y/n) [y]: ``n`
  `Configuring system ...`
  `+++ Validating Interfaces ...`
  `+++++ eth0 ... OK`
  `+++++ eth1 ... OK`
  The controller appliance restarts.
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