Symantec volume purchase agreement

(SEP) requires a paid license to receive security content updates, product updates and versions, and access to Technical Support. After you install

Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager , you have 60 days to purchase enough license seats to cover all of your deployed clients. How to license Symantec Endpoint Protection Description Step 1: Purchase a license To purchase a new license, contact your preferred reseller. For more information, go to Symantec Getting Started and scroll down to On-Premises Security Products You must purchase a license in the following situations: You are a new customer. Your trial license expired. Your paid license expired. You deployed more clients than your license allows (over-deployed). Step 2: Download your license file from the Broadcom portal

Go to the Broadcom portal and download the license file (.slf) to your Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager computer.

The license is no longer mailed to you. Step 3: Activate your purchased license You need the serial number to activate the installation.

Log on to the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager with a system administrator account, such as the default account

page to import and your Symantec Endpoint Protection product license file. You can perform the following tasks to manage your licenses. Licensing tasks Description Retrieve your serial number If you have an existing license from Symantec and must retrieve your serial number, see: Renew your license Contact your preferred reseller. See: Find out when your license expires and if you are overdeployed

Check the status for each license that you imported into the console to see whether you must renew a license or purchase more licenses.

You can apply an existing license to a product upgrade. See: Manage licenses on virtual machines

For virtual clients, the management server counts the licenses of online non-persistent clients only. Make your virtual clients non-persistent if you have more users than you have clients. See:

Back up your license file

Back up your license files to preserve them in case the database or the computer hard disk becomes damaged. See: