You can display information about the currently used SPS license from the https://<IP-address-of-SPS>/api/configuration/management/license endpoint.

Caution: Accessing the One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) host directly using SSH is not recommended or supported, except for troubleshooting purposes. In such case, the One Identity Support Team will give you exact instructions on what to do to solve the problem. For security reasons, disable SSH access to SPS when it is not needed. For details, see "Enabling SSH access to the One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) host" in the Administration Guide.

The following encryption algorithms are configured on the local SSH service of SPS:

• Key exchange (KEX) algorithms:

  diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256

• Ciphers:

  aes256-ctr,aes128-ctr

• Message authentication codes:

  hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha2-256

URL

GET https://<IP-address-of-SPS>/api/configuration/management/license

Cookies

Cookie name	Description	Required	Values
session_id	Contains the authentication token of the user	Required	The value of the session ID cookie received from the REST server in the authentication response, for example, a1f71d030e657634730b9e887cb59a5e56162860. For details on authentication, see Authenticate to the SPS REST API. NOTE: This session ID refers to the connection between the REST client and the SPS REST API. It is not related to the sessions that SPS records (and which also have a session ID, but in a different format)..

Sample request

The following command lists the configuration options.

curl --cookie cookies -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://10.30.255.28/api/configuration/management/license

Response

The following is a sample response received.

For details of the meta object, see Message format.

{
    "body": {
        "customer": "Example",
        "limit": 5000,
        "limit_type": "host",
        "serial": "b937d212-db7d-0f2f-4c87-295e3c57024a",
        "valid_not_after": "2018-11-07",
        "valid_not_before": "2017-11-06"
    },
    "key": "license",
    "meta": {
        "first": "/api/configuration/management/certificates",
        "href": "/api/configuration/management/license",
        "last": "/api/configuration/management/webinterface",
        "next": "/api/configuration/management/root_password",
        "parent": "/api/configuration/management",
        "previous": "/api/configuration/management/health_monitoring",
        "remaining_seconds": 600,
        "transaction": "/api/transaction",
        "upload": "/api/upload/license"
    }
}

Element			Type	Description
key			string	Top level element, contains the ID of the endpoint.
body			Top level element (string)	Contains the parameters of the license.
	customer		string	The company permitted to use the license (for example, Example Ltd.).
	limit		integer	The actual value of the session or host limit (see limit_type).
	limit_type		host | session	host: Limits the number of servers (individual IP addresses) that can be connected through SPS. session: Limits the number of concurrent sessions (parallel connections) that can pass through SPS at a time (for example 25). SPS will reject additional connection requests until an already established connection is closed.
		serial	string	The unique serial number of the license.
		valid_not_after	date	The date when the license expires. The dates are displayed in YYYY/MM/DD format.
		valid_not_before	date	The date after which the license is valid. The dates are displayed in YYYY/MM/DD format.

Status and error codes

The following table lists the typical status and error codes for this request. For a complete list of error codes, see Application level error codes.

Code	Description	Notes
401	Unauthenticated	The requested resource cannot be retrieved because the client is not authenticated and the resource requires authorization to access it. The details section contains the path that was attempted to be accessed, but could not be retrieved.
403	Unauthorized	The requested resource cannot be retrieved because the client is not authorized to access it. The details section contains the path that was attempted to be accessed, but could not be retrieved.
404	NotFound	The requested object does not exist.

Upload a new license

To upload a new license file, complete the following steps.

1. Download your license file from support portal.

2. Open a transaction.

   For more information, see Open a transaction.

3. Upload the license file.

   Upload the file to the https://<IP-address-of-SPS>/api/upload/license endpoint. For example:

   curl --cookie cookies -F 'data=@/path/license.txt' -H "Expect:" --insecure https://<IP-address-of-SPS>/api/upload/license

4. Restart the traffic on SPS.

   SPS will not use the new license to ongoing sessions. For the new license to take full effect, you must restart all traffic on the Basic Settings > System > Traffic control page of the SPS web interface.

   curl --cookie cookies -F 'data=@/path/license.txt' -H "Expect:" --insecure https://<IP-address-of-SPS>/api/upload/license

5. Commit your changes.

   For more information, see Commit a transaction.