Broadband Smart Licensing

The Broadband Smart Licensing feature supports broadband Lite sessions during the deployment of ASR1000 Aggregation Services Routers.

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Prerequisites for Broadband Smart Licensing

Restrictions for Broadband Smart Licensing

  • The Broadband Smart Licensing feature is supported only on AR1K running Polaris 16.5 release and above.

  • The feature does not support boradband Lite sessions.

  • The stand-by RP does not have an account.

  • Only broadband smart licenses that are multiples of two can be requested, 1 license = 2 thousand sessions.

Information About Broadband Smart Licensing

Broadband Sessions

How to Configure Broadband Smart Licensing

Configuring the Subscriber License

To configure broadband smart licensing, configure the subscriber license command before starting a broadband session.

Before you begin

Do the following:

SUMMARY STEPS

  1. enable
  2. configure terminal
  3. subscriber license
  4. exit

DETAILED STEPS

  Command or Action Purpose
Step 1

enable

Example:

Device> enable

  • Enables privileged EXEC mode.

  • Enter your password if prompted.
Step 2

configure terminal

Example:

Device# configure terminal

Enters global configuration mode.
Step 3

subscriber license

Example:

Device(config)# subscriber license

Configures the subscriber license.

Note 

The following configurations are essential to establish a connection between the ASR1000 and the licensing server.
Step 4

exit

Example:

Device(config)# exit

Exits global configuration mode.

Note 

If the subscriber license command is configured before bringing up a broadband session, irrespective of any earlier broadband license request failure, the range of the license to be requested must be between 2 – 128K (range of subscriber license). When the session count exceeds the procured broadband license count by 100, a request is sent for a new license.

Ensure that there is no failure of license procurement in the last 24 hours.
Note 

Use the subscriber license command to release all procured licenses.

During procuring and releasing the licenses, a message is displayed with the details about the license and the session count.

Clearing the Subscriber License

SUMMARY STEPS

  1. clear subscriber license

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action Purpose

clear subscriber license

Example:

Device# clear subscriber license

*Jul 10 10:24:27.217: %SSSMGR-5-BB_LICENSE_REQUEST_SENT: Broadband license request sent for 0 license with configured license count 0 

*Jul 10 10:24:27.217: %SSSMGR-5-BB_LICENSE_RELEASE_SUCCESS: Successfully released all BroadBand licenses     



Sessions: ISG session, except for the lite session

Verifying Broadband Smart Licensing

SUMMARY STEPS

  1. Debug subscriber license

DETAILED STEPS

Debug subscriber license

Configuration Examples for Broadband Smart Licensing

Example: show subscriber license

The show subscriber license command tracks the number of procured broadband licenses, the configured value of broadband licenses, current session count on the router, the highest session count reached since the last license request was sent to the server and the time at which it was procured.

The following is sample output of the show subscriber license command 

Device# show subscriber license
Broadband Smart License Compliance               : In Compliance

Total Number of Broadband Licenses Procured      : 0

Broadband Licenses Configured                    : 0

Current Broadband Session Count                  : 0

Time of Last License Procurement                 : No License Procured

Sessions Peak Count Since Last Procurement       : 0

Use the no subscriber license command to release all procured licenses.

no subscriber license


Note
During procuring and releasing of licenses, a message is displayed with the license details and the session count.

Example: Show license summary

Example: Show license summary

Example: Clear subscriber license

Example: Clear subscriber license

Additional References for Broadband Smart Licensing

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Feature Information for Broadband Smart Licensing

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Table 1. Feature Information for Broadband Smart Licensing

Feature Name

Releases

Feature Information

Broadband Smart Licensing

Cisco IOS XE Everest 16.6.1

The Broadband Smart Licensing feature enables to purchase licenses for any number of broadband sessions that are active during the deployment of ASR1000 Aggregation Services Routers.

The following commands were introduced or modified:subscriber license , show subscriber licens