Registration requests from a disconnected VCF Operations are saved in this signed JSON format. Take the file to the Broadcom portal yourself and upload it to get a licence file back.
Also called JSON Web Signed file.
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Terms in this definition
- VCF Operations
VCF's console for running the fleet. It covers alerting, monitoring, capacity, reporting, log analysis and licensing alongside fleet management of identity, passwords, certificates and lifecycle.
- JSON
Text-based format for structured data. ARM templates and Cosmos DB documents are written in it, and most Azure REST APIs exchange request and response bodies as application/json.
- FORMAT
A DAX function that turns a value into text according to a format string, for instance "MMMM" to show a month's name. Since the output is text, numeric operations can't use it, and dynamic format strings were introduced to get around that.
- Get
Key Vault permission on secrets that allows a single secret to be read; App Service Key Vault references need nothing beyond it.
- licence file
Proof of entitlement loaded into VCF Operations, possibly holding several licences; it supersedes the older 25-character keys.
Related terms
- usage file
A record of licence consumption, in the form of a gZip-compressed JWS file. Connected VCF Operations sends it every day, whereas disconnected setups require you to create and upload it manually.