And for those not familiar with these acronyms:
PAK = Platform Activation Key, which is the license for your ClearPass Appliance.
SAID = Service Agreement Identification, which is the service/maintence/support contract.
The ClearPass license and support must be in the same account and linked together. Apparently in this case there was a problem with that, and its something only support (TAC) can fix, in general. Others seeing the same message, reach out to TAC.
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Herman Robers
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If you have urgent issues, always contact your Aruba partner, distributor, or Aruba TAC Support. Check
https://www.arubanetworks.com/support-services/contact-support/ for how to contact Aruba TAC. Any opinions expressed here are solely my own and not necessarily that of Hewlett Packard Enterprise or Aruba Networks.
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Original Message:
Sent: Nov 05, 2024 08:40 AM
From: jonas.hammarback
Subject: ClearPass 6.11 Platform License does not have valid Support Contract
I have just got confirmation from Aruba TAC that they have found an error in how the PAK licenses are bound to the SAID.
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Jonas Hammarbäck
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Original Message:
Sent: Dec 07, 2022 02:22 PM
From: mkk
Subject: ClearPass 6.11 Platform License does not have valid Support Contract
Hi Jonas,
Sound like you have to contact Aruba TAC Support to fix that. I think you PAK license isn't correctly bound to the support contract in the Aruba backend.
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Marcel Koedijk | MVP Expert 2022 | ACEP | ACMP | ACCP | ACDP | Ekahau ECSE | Not an HPE Employee | Opinions are my own
Original Message:
Sent: Dec 07, 2022 10:45 AM
From: Jonas Hammarback
Subject: ClearPass 6.11 Platform License does not have valid Support Contract
Hi
One of my customers have a test environment with C1000 hardware servers and we have successfully upgraded to 6.11.
Under the Software Updates page we have a message stating:
System Update/Upgrade is not allowed as Platform License does not have valid Support Contract
As ClearPass 6.11 have a requirement of a support contract bound to the license I understand that the license for some reason isn't bound to a support contract. But we have active support contract in the ASP portal.
What is the best way to solve this issue? The servers have Partner Branded Support, if this make any difference.
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Best Regards
Jonas Hammarbäck
ACCX #1335, ACMP, ACDP, ACNSP, ACEP, ACSA
Aranya AB
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