Activating and renewing the software on OS X operating system software

If you want to activate SMART Notebook software during deployment, you can use either of the following practices, depending on your deployment method:

• System imaging: If you use system imaging, do not activate the software before you freeze the image. You can use the Delayed Activation feature to register your product key on the system before freezing it. After the image is deployed, SMART Notebook software, will prompt you to activate the registered product key. (see Delay Activation procedure in the table under Customizing the software on OS X operating system software).

• Network deployment: If you use a network deployment tool such as Apple Remote Desktop, you can specify your product key normally in Install Manager or by using command-line parameters. Activation will occur during installation on each individual computer.

There are two situations in which the software doesn’t activate completely:

• Imaging a computer: Activation is linked to the hardware identifier of the computer on which the software is installed and activated. If you clone a hard drive image with installed and activated software, you must activate the software on each cloned computer.

• Reverting a computer to an earlier state: If you use system recovery or protection software that periodically restores the computer to an earlier state, you might need to activate the software before locking the computer so that the activation record is not cleared each time the computer is restored.

Run the activation wizard while the computer is connected to the network, or complete the following procedure to activate the software on each computer.

To activate SMART software after installation

1. In Finder, browse to /Applications/Utilities, and then double-click Terminal.

   The Terminal window appears.

2. Type the following command:

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   /Library/Application\ Support/SMART\ Technologies/Activation\ Wizard\ 2.app/Contents/MacOS/Activation\ Wizard --puid notebook_14 --uipack notebook_10 --m=4 --v=5 --pks "[Product keys]" --a

   • Optional flags are optional flags you can include to configure the activation wizard.

   • Where Product keys are one or more software product keys separated by commas.

3. Click RETURN.

4. Type your administrator password, and then click RETURN.

If your school has purchased maintenance or subscription licenses, SMART software attempts to renew the keys automatically on a scheduled basis before and after the keys’ expiry dates. However, you can choose to explicitly renew the keys at a specified time.

Renewing keys in unattended mode

To renew all keys

1. Run the following command:

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   /Library/Application\ Support/SMART\ Technologies/Activation\ Wizard\ 2.app/Contents/MacOS/Activation\ Wizard\ 2 --m=15 --v=5--renewal-mode all

To renew all keys associated with a single product

1. Run the following command:

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   /Library/Application\ Support/SMART\ Technologies/Activation\ Wizard\ 2.app/Contents/MacOS/Activation\ Wizard\ 2  --m=15 --v=5--renewal-mode product --puid=[Product]

   Where Product is notebook_14.

   Note 

   This command renews all keys associated with the specified product.

To renew specific keys

1. Run the following command:

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   /Library/Application\ Support/SMART\ Technologies/Activation\ Wizard\ 2.app/Contents/MacOS/Activation\ Wizard\ 2  --m=15 --v=5--renewal-mode product --puid=[Product] --pks="[Product keys]"

   Where

   • Product is notebook_14.

   • Where Product keys are one or more software product keys separated by commas.

Renewing keys in user interface mode

To renew all keys associated with a single product

1. Run the following command:

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   /Library/Application\ Support/SMART\ Technologies/Activation\ Wizard\ 2.app/Contents/MacOS/Activation\ Wizard\ 2 --m=16 --v=5--renewal-mode product --puid=[Product] --uipack=[UI pack]

   Where

   • Product is notebook_14.

   • UI pack is the corresponding UI pack for the selected product (notebook_10).

   Note 

   This command renews all keys associated with the specified product.

To renew specific keys

1. Run the following command:

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   /Library/Application\ Support/SMART\ Technologies/Activation\ Wizard\ 2.app/Contents/MacOS/Activation\ Wizard\ 2 --m=16 --v=5--renewal-mode product --puid=[Product] --uipack=[UI pack] --pks="[Product keys]"

   Where

   • Product is notebook_14.

   • UI pack is the corresponding UI pack for the selected product (notebook_10).

   • Where Product keys are one or more software product keys separated by commas.

You can use SMART Product Update (SPU) from the command line to retrieve information on SPU settings and activation status. You could use this in scripts with industry standard execution tools to retrieve information on your network’s computers.

To use SPU to retrieve activation status

1. Run the following command:

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   "/Applications/SMART Technologies/SMART Tools/SMART Product Update.app/Contents/MacOS/SMART Product Update" --query [Options] > OutputFile.txt 2> /dev/null

   Notes 

   • OutputFile.txt is the file in which you record the results. The path to this file can be absolute or relative. When specifying a path to a folder, make sure you have write permissions to that folder.

   • The 2> /dev/null command suppresses any messages that appear on the Standard Error output stream.

   • Options is used for the following optional parameters:

     • --format Format

       Valid values for Format are csv, json or xml. The json and xml format provides full details, and csv formats provide basic information.

     • --key Key

       This parameter is used to narrow down the returned results. The appropriate format for this parameter is json or xml.

As of version 17.0, SMART Notebook supports the return of a product key activation with a command-line script. An Activation Wizard.app command can be deployed across the network to return the activation from several computers, making the product key available for use on other computers.

You can specify multiple keys in one command by using the command format below.

To return product keys

1. Run the following command:

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   /Library/Application\ Support/SMART\ Technologies/Activation\ Wizard\ 2.app/Contents/MacOS/Activation\ Wizard\ 2 --puid notebook_16 --m=4 --v=5 --return --pks=[Product key],[Product key]