• Activate ESET products installed on your endpoints or server using a task in ESET Remote Administrator
   
• This task can be used to activate all common ESET Remote Administrator components including ESET Shared Local Cache and ESET Mobile Device manager

Prerequisites:

• Make sure the necessary ports are open on your network
• Deploy the ESET Remote Administrator Agent (ERA Agent)
• Install ESET Endpoint products on client computers
• Add valid ESET-issued License Keys to License Management in the ERA Web Console

Activate ESET products using the ERA Web Console:

A user must have the following permissions for each affected object:

A user must have the following permissions for their home group:

Once these permissions are in place, follow the steps below.

1. Open ESET Remote Administrator Web Console (ERA Web Console) in your web browser and log in. How do I open ERA Web Console?

2. Click Admin  → Client Tasks → All Tasks → ESET Security Product → Product Activation and click New.
   

   

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3. Type a task name into the Name field.
   

   

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4. Expand the Settings section and click <Choose ESET License>.

   

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5. Select a valid license from the repository and click OK. Click here for instructions to add licenses in ESET Remote Administrator.

   NOTE:

   Product Activation Task is not possible to execute on mobile devices (ESET Endpoint for Androidand MDM for iOS) with offline license.

   

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6. Click Finish.
   
   

   ESET Remote Administrator version 6.2.11 and earlier: 

   Adding targets is done during task creation (for example, after adding a new task and giving it a Name, click Target to add groups or clients to the task).

    

    

7. Create a trigger and add target computers or groups to execute your Product Activation task.

8. To check the status of the task, click the appropriate task name and select Show Details from the context menu.

   

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9. Click the Executions tab and verify the status of your task in the Status column.

   

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Activate ESET products on individual client computers:

Typically, ESET Endpoint products are activated during installation. To activate your product after installation, follow the steps below:

1. Open ESET Endpoint Security or ESET Endpoint Antivirus. How do I open my ESET product?
2. Click Activate product in the main program window (alternatively, you can click Update → Activate product, or Help And Support → Activate product).
   

   

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3. Enter your ESET-issued License Key into the License Key field and click Activate.
   

   Where is my license key?

   Your License Key was sent to you in an email after you purchased your ESET license.

   • If you only have your ESET-issued Username and Password, you can use our online converter to get your License Key.
   • If you need to have your license information resent to you, recover it here.

   

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4. After a successful activation, click Done.
   

   

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