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1. Use ssh to log in on the license server instance.
   # ssh <user>@<license-server-ip>
   where
   
   1. <user> is the user for interactive login associated with your license server system.
   2. <license-server-ip> the ip address of your license server system.
      
2. Become the privileged user and run the esxi_bind program.
   1. Become the root user: # sudo -i
   2. Run the c2v program: # /opt/license-server/esxi_bind -a <address> -u <username> -p <password>
where
      1. <address> is the IP address of the ESXi host or vCenter server.
      2. <username> is a user with administrative rights on the ESXi host or vCenter server.
      3. <password> is the password of the administrative user.
3. If the command is successful, it will create the file /opt/license-server/config.ini containing the connection data (the password is encrypted).

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1. Use ssh to log in on the license server instance.
   # ssh -i ~/.ssh/<mykey> <user>@<license-server-ip>
   where
   1. <mykey> is the private key of the key-pair you associated with your cloud instance . For (for an on-premises VMware installation where login with username/password is allowed, it is not needed.)
   2. <user> is the user for interactive login associated with your license server instance (e.g., opc on OCI, centos for a CentOS instance on AWS, or the custom user on your VMware virtual machine; for an instance installed from a prepackaged Charon-SSP VE marketplace image, use sshuser)
   3. <license-server-ip> is the ip address of your license server system.
      
2. Become the privileged user and run the c2v program.
   1. Become the root user: # sudo -i
   2. Run the c2v program: # /opt/license-server/c2v --filename <my-file>.c2v --platform <my-platform>
where
      1. <my-file>.c2v is the path and name under which you want to store the fingerprint. The file type is C2V (customer-to-vendor).
      2. <my-platform> indicates the platform on which the license server runs . Possible (possible values: aws, oci, gcp, azure, ibm, or esxi.)
3. Copy the resulting C2V file to your local system (unless you can send email from the license server system).

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1. Copy the V2C file to the license server (e.g., with SFTP).
2. Use ssh to log in on the license server instance.
   # ssh -i ~/.ssh/<mykey> <user>@<license-server-ip>
   where
   1. <mykey> is the private key of the key-pair you associated with your license server instance . For (for an on-premises VMware installation where login with username/password is allowed, it is not needed.)
   2. <user> is the user for interactive login associated with your license server instance (e.g., opc on OCI, centos for a CentOS instance on AWS, or the custom user on your VMware virtual machine); for an instance installed from a prepackaged Charon-SSP VE marketplace image, use sshuser).
   3. <license-server-ip> is the ip address of your license server system.
      
3. Become the privileged user and run the v2c program.
   1. Become the root user: # sudo -i
   2. Run the v2c program: # /opt/license-server/v2c -f <my-file>.v2c
where <my-file>.v2c is the path and name under which you want to store the fingerprint. The file type is V2C (vendor-to-customer).

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