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    Activate the Deployment Profile

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    Activate the Deployment Profile

    Ensure to activate additional licenses on your tenants if you have enrolled to a cloud service subscription (consisting of IoT, SaaS Inline, SCM, SCM Pro, and SLS).
    If you have enrolled to a cloud service subscription (consisting of IoT, SaaS Inline, Strata Cloud Manager, Strata Cloud Manager Pro, and Strata Logging Service), you will need to activate additional licenses on your tenants after you create a deployment profile on the Customer Support Portal. You will find the deployment profile that you need to activate, listed under Current Deployment Profiles.
    If you have not enrolled to a cloud subscription (consisting of IoT, SaaS Inline, Strata Cloud Manager, Strata Cloud Manager Pro, and Strata Logging Service), you won't need to activate your deployment profile.
    1. After you create a deployment profile, click Finish SetUp.
      You will be prompted with authentication to SSO after which you will view the Activate Subscriptions based on the deployment profiles page.
    2. Select the Customer Support Portal account that you are subscribed to.
    3. Select or Create the required tenant and the region it belongs to.
    4. Select the deployment profile that you wish to associate with the selected tenant. You can also search for the deployment profile using its name or auth code.
      The status of the Deployment Profiles is listed as Available or Not available. The required dependency to make the deployment profile available is also listed. The Deployment Profiles listed as available can be associated with the tenant.
      The Deployment Profiles listed as Not available might have a missing or a conflicting service under the selected tenant. For example, you cannot activate Strata Cloud Manager and Strata Cloud Manager Pro under the same Tenant Service group (TSG). If you have a deployment profile with SCM subscription that is associated with a TSG, and another deployment profile with AIOps subscription, the deployment profiles are listed as available. However, you won't be able to activate the deployment profile with AIOps under the same TSG, and this will result in an error due to conflicting services.
    5. Agree to the terms and conditions and click Activate.
      The tenant provisioning process takes around 15-50 minutes and the Profile Association Status on the hub appears as Associating. After the tenant provisioning is complete, the Finish SetUp link disappears automatically.
    6. The registered devices are viewed at Common Services > Device Associations on the hub.
      Alternatively, if you don't wish to activate the deployment profile through Finish SetUp, you can navigate to Common Services > Subscriptions & Add-ons. You will find the deployment profile under the Ready for Activation section. Click Activate Now to activate the deployment profile.

    Use Cases

    The following are some of the use case scenarios you might face while activating a deployment profile.
    1. If you have deleted your deployment profile but not dissociated it from a tenant:
      1. On the hub, navigate to Common Services > Tenant Management > Deployment Profiles.
      2. Click the ellipses (3 vertical dots) against the deployment profile you need to dissociate and click Remove Association.
      3. Click Delete on the confirmation dialog.
    2. If you need to use your deployment profile with another TSG:
      You can't associate a deployment profile with more than one TSG.
      1. Follow the steps in use case 1 to dissociate the required deployment profile from the tenant.
      2. Navigate to the required TSG and associate the deployment profile with it.
    3. You won't be able to associate two deployment profiles with a TSG if one has Strata Cloud Manager Pro and the other has Strata Logging Service. All the deployment profiles that need to be associated with a TSG will have to be either on Strata Cloud Manager Pro or Strata Logging Service.
    4. In case of an upgrade scenario, where you have a subscription to SLS and need Cloud Management and ADEM:
      1. You will need to upgrade to only Strata Cloud Manager Pro and not to Strata Cloud Manager. The existing services will be associated with additional services like ADEM, AIOps, and so on. Now, the new prices will be calculated as per the new subscription and the Finish SetUp link appears again.
        The Profile Association Status for the SLS deployment profile on the hub will now change from Complete to Pending.
      2. Agree to the Terms and Conditions on the Activate Subscriptions based on the Deployment Profile window and click Activate Now.
        The SCM deployment profile will now spin up and after the Profile Association Status turns to complete, the Finish SetUp link disappears.

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