I’ll put it here so that I don’t have to open a new topic. Since we are getting closer to release date I have a question about the upgrade:
Our FreePBX is installed on a MiniPC (small office, 5 phones, 3 lines, has been working for 2 years without any problems). The FreePBX makes a daily backup to an FTP server (irrelevant for my question). And it makes a weekly warm spare backup via SSH to a separate, completely identical MiniPC. This has also been absolutely problem-free for 2 years (with the lines remaining deactivated on the backup system…). The idea, of course, is that if the main PBX fails, we are up and running again with the backup PBX within minutes (so far, so unspectacular).
The EndPoint module is licensed on our main PBX (25-year license). Not on the backup PBX, of course. That is the initial situation.
My idea would be to keep our main PBX running. I would then upgrade to FreePBX 17 on the backup PBX, i.e. first Debian and then FreePBX and restore the last backup according to the guide. Once everything is tested and working on FreePBX 17, which I assume is the case as our setup is quite simple and I am confident, we would probably use this system as the main PBX (i.e. switch on the lines etc.) and then update the other MiniPC, which would then become the backup PBX. Now to the actual question: Can I activate the license of the EndPoint module? It seems to me that I have to deactivate it on the other one first and then activate it on the new one. But you can’t do that indefinitely (it seems to me 2x), which is a bit annoying if I lose one of two left activations, so to speak, just for an upgrade to a new FreePBX version. Could I get around this by reactivating the license on the same PC (where is activated now) or will I lose one activation anyway? Long story short: Is there a way to upgrade without loosing an activation of the EPM?