[00:00] In this lesson, we'll learn how to activate a license while the gateway is disconnected from the internet. Whether you've intentionally decided to keep your ignition network off the internet or it becomes accidentally disconnected for any number of reasons, Inductive Automation still provides a path for us to activate a license. Let's say I'm in this situation and I've purchased an Ignition license. I'll need to navigate to the licensing page to generate an activation request. To get there, click on the platform tab and expand system, and to click licensing. Once here, we'll click on the activate a license button. I'll go ahead and enter my license key here and click on next. On this page, we'll set the activation method. Since I don't have an internet connection, my only option is to choose offline activation. So let's click on next. On this page, we get three instruction steps for activating the license. This involves downloading an activation request, providing this to the Inductive Automation activation webpage, and gathering a license file where you can come back here and upload that later.

[01:13] Let's start at step one and click the download activation request button. This will download an activation_message.txt file. At this point, we can transfer this file to a device connected to the internet and then navigate to this activation link on that machine. So I'll go ahead and reconnect my device and I'll grab this link by clicking on this copy to clipboard button. I'll paste this into my address bar, and once the page loads, we'll see two options for uploading the file. This bottom one here is used for unactivation, which is covered in the unactivating a license lesson later in this course. So we'll use this top one here to gather a license file for offline activation. First, you will click on the choose file button and then browse for the activation request, which is that activation message file. Next, we can click on the upload activation file button, which will take the request and give us back the license.IPL file containing our license.

[02:07] This file will need to be transferred back to our Ignition gateway that is disconnected. So I'll go back there and I'm still on this activate a license page. Here on step three, we can click to browse for the license file, or we can just drag it into this box. Once the file has been uploaded, we can click on the activate a license button and we'll see that the license was activated and all my modules have been imported.