About automatic license activation

Milestone recommends that your surveillance system is online so that your licenses are automatically activated.

When your system is online, the system activates your hardware devices or other licenses a few minutes after you have made your changes. The result is that:

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, unless you have added more hardware devices than your number of purchased hardware device licenses allows.

In some cases you must activate licenses manually. Such cases are when you have purchased additional licenses, if you have bought or renewed a Milestone Care subscription, or if Milestone has granted you a higher number of device changes without activation.