13. Licenses

The Sipwise NGCP — starting from mr5.5.1 release — implements software licensing primarily for the commercial products PRO and CARRIER. However as a CE platform operator you may also see a new process running on the system: "licensed". The only purpose of this software module is to collect anonymous statistics about the system usage, namely the following performance indicators are recorded:

number of provisioned subscribers
number of registered subscribers
number of concurrent calls

The anonymous usage statistics is enabled by default but you can disable it. In order to do that you have to edit the main configuration file /etc/ngcp-config/config.yml and set general.anonymous_usage_statistics parameter to no. Then apply the new configuration with the usual command: ngcpcfg apply "Disabled anon. usage stat."

tip
tip	If the NGCP operator does not want to have the license client package (`ngcp-license-client` and `ngcp-license-module`) on his system at all, it is possible to replace it with a dummy package: `ngcp-license-client-dummy`. This dummy package does not contain any licensing software, and is available from mr5.5.2 NGCP release.