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This document helps you understand Wildix licensing and explains how to activate a Wildix Per User PBX (Hardware, Virtual, Cloud).

Created: June 2018

Updated: November 2020

Permalink: https://confluence.wildix.com/x/twM8AQ

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Other documents related to WMP (Wildix Management Portal):

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Details on each user profile: https://www.wildix.com/licensing/.

Per User licensing is available for any PBX type:

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    • Model: select WPBX-CLOUD for Cloud / WPBX-VM/HW for Virtual or Hardware

    • Region (only for Cloud PBX): select the datacenter region

    • Name: PBX domain name by which your PBX is accessible via the browser; in the example provided below, the PBX can be accessed by URL https://elenatest2.wildixin.com

    • Expire: select the recurring billing period: monthly / yearly / lifetime (lifetime is not available for Cloud PBX)

    • PBX-BASIC / UC-Essential / UC-Business / UC-Premium / UC-Wizyconf / PBX-Service: add the number of users of each profile (more about each profile: https://www.wildix.com/licensing/)

    • Storage size (only for Cloud PBX): increase Cloud instance storage size. Refer to this chapter for more details

Note

If you made a mistake during the system activation, please contact immediately your Area Manager. Issue must be reported within 1 (one) business day.


  • Click Add Click Add and then Save 

  • To confirm the subscription fee, tick off ; your


  • Your PBX has been added:


Note

Note: after the PBX has been added, you can see its Software Serial (SW Serial):

You can use SW Serial to activate new HW PBX in case of RMA or you can replace HW with VM PBX and vice versa. In this case new PBX will take Name, Licenses and attached Devices of the SW serial.

Please note, next activation of HW PBX will automatically convert HW Serial to SW Serial preserving its Name, Licenses and attached Devices. So HW Serial will disappear from portal and new SW Serial will appear instead.

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  • Connect to PBX via HTTPS to access WMS using credentials admin : wildix

  • Change admin user password:

    • Select admin user and click Set passwords

    • Generate or create a new WEB password, click Ok

  • Upgrade WMS to the latest stable release

    • go to WMS Settings -> Tools and utilities -> Upgrade

    • In case there is a new version available, click Perform Upgrade 

  • Copy PBX key from WMP:

    Note

    Only for Virtual and Hardware PBXs. Cloud PBXs are activated automatically (wait for approximately 3 minutes after completing Step 1).


    • go to Customers tab, select your company, then select the PBX that you have created (Step 1)

    • click the Copy icon (Copy PBX key to clipboard):

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Note

Licenses will be automatically renewed and invoiced on the last day of their expiration term. 

We recommend to carry out all of the license changes 2 days before the license expiration date.

IMPORTANT: No license decrease can be done on the last day of the month!

But licenses can be removed at any moment with no money back for prepaid ones.

Note

If the Partner has made a mistake during the system activation, please report it to your Area Manager within 1 (one) business day, include the following details:

  1. partner’s name
  2. customer’s PBX S/N
  3. quantity and type of licenses that should be on the PBX

IMPORTANT: Partners should not change anything by themselves! Only report a mistake to the account manager.

Change the term of the license

To change the expiration period, follow the steps below:

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Change the term of the license

To change the expiration period, follow the steps below:

  1. Go to WMP -> Customers
  2. Select your company and customer
  3. Select the PBX -> click Edit
  4. Decrease the number of user licenses to zero
  5. Click Save and Ok to confirm the operation
  6. Select the PBX again and click Edit
  7. Change the expiration period (term of the license) 
  8. Add back user licenses
  9. Click Save and tick off I confirm the order
  10. Click Ok to confirm the operation

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If the Partner has made a mistake during the system activation, it has to be reported within 1 (one) business day, by sending an e-mail to the area manager with the following details:

  1. partner’s name
  2. customer’s PBX S/N
  3. quantity and type of licenses that should be on the PBX
  4. expiration term to be set

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Note

Licenses will be automatically renewed and invoiced on the last day of their expiration term.

We recommend to carry out all of the license changes 2 days before the license expiration date.

IMPORTANT: No license decrease can be done on the last day of the month!

But licenses can be removed at any moment with no money back for prepaid ones.

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You will be prompted to enter the password of your new cloud PBX. During the script execution you will be prompted to confirm, which data you would like to be moved. As soon as the script finishes its execution, the data will be moved and you will be able to access the Cloud PBX using the password of your old PBX. 

Enable SSH port on Cloud PBXs (optional) 
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Direct access to SSH port on Cloud PBXs is blocked for security reasons. Now it’s up to you to temporarily enable/ disable SSH port 2222 via WMP:

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