For easy maintenance and flexibility, Milestone recommends that you enable automatic license activation because it means less maintenance for you. Automatic license activation requires your management server to be online.
When the requirements above are met, the system activates your hardware devices or other licenses a few minutes after you have added, removed or replaced hardware devices or made other changes that affect the use of your licenses. Therefore, you never have to manually start a license activation. The number of used device changes without activation is always zero. No hardware devices are within a grace period and at risk of expiring. If one of your base licenses expires within a period of 14 days, your XProtect system will also - as an extra precaution - automatically try to activate your licenses every night.
The only time you have to manually activate your licenses is when you:
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