Activating Liferay DXP

There are 2 ways to activate your Liferay DXP instance:

• With an XML activation key that you request and receive from Liferay Support.

• Online activation through Liferay Connected Services (LCS). Liferay DXP 7.0 introduced LCS as a way to activate Liferay DXP instances. LCS can also install fix packs, monitor each instance’s performance, and help administrators automatically manage Liferay DXP subscriptions. See the LCS documentation for instructions on activating your instances with LCS.

Note: You must use LCS for activation of containerized instances, cloud deployments, and instances that use Liferay Analytics Cloud and/or elastic subscriptions. Otherwise, you don’t have to use LCS for activation. You can instead request an XML activation key from Liferay Support.