Cisco Smart Licensing Client

Smart Licensing Client feature is a standardized licensing platform that simplifies the Cisco software experience and helps you to understand how Cisco software is used across your network. Smart Licensing is the next generation licensing platform for all Cisco software products.

This document provides an overview of the Cisco Smart Licensing Client feature and describes the several tools and processes required to complete the products registration and authorization.

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Prerequisites for Cisco Smart Licensing Client

  • Ensure that Call Home is not disabled before using the Smart Licensing Client feature.

Restrictions for Cisco Smart Licensing Client

  • Only Cisco One Suites is supported in Cisco Smart Licensing for the current release.

  • Only one licensing mode, either the Classical Licensing (CISL) or the Smart Licensing mode is supported at one point in time.


Note

Cisco Smart Licensing Client is not supported on Cisco's Integrated Services Routers Generation 2 (ISR G2) platform.

Information About Cisco Smart Licensing Client

Cisco Smart Licensing - An Overview

A new licensing model, based on a single technology, has been designed for Cisco called Smart Licensing that is intended to provide Enterprise Level Agreement-like capabilities for all of Cisco's products.

Smart Licensing is software based licensing end-to-end platform that consists of several tools and processes to authorize customers the usage and reporting of the Cisco products. The feature has the capability to capture the customers order and communicates with Cisco Cloud License Service through Smart Call Home transport media to complete the products registration and authorization on desired performance and technology level.

The Smart Licensing feature is aimed at giving users an experience of a single, standardized licensing solution for all Cisco products.

To know more about Smart Call Home, please refer to Smart Call Home.

Transitioning from CISL to Smart Licensing

In the Smart Licensing Model, customers can activate licensed objects without the use of a special software key or upgrade license file. The customers simply activate the new functionality using the appropriate product commands and configurations and the functionality is activated. A software reboot may or may not be required depending on the product capabilities and requirements.

Similarly, downgrading or removing an advanced feature, performance, or functionality would require a removal of the configuration or command.

Once either of these actions has been taken, the change in license state is noted by the Smart Software Manager upon next synchronization and an appropriate action is then taken.

Cisco One Suites

Cisco ONE Suites is a new way for customers to purchase infrastructure software. Cisco ONE offers a simplified purchasing model, centered on common customer scenarios in the data center, wide area network, and local access networks. To know more about Cisco One Suites, please refer to Cisco ONE Suites.

How to Activate Cisco Smart Licensing Client

Enable Smart Licensing

Before You Begin

Before you enable Smart Licensing, ensure that Cisco One Suites is already enabled on your device. To know how to enable Cisco One Suites, please refer to Activating Cisco One Suite License.

SUMMARY STEPS

    1.    enable

    2.    configure terminal

    3.    license smart enable

    4.    exit

    5.    write memory

    6.    show license all


DETAILED STEPS
     Command or ActionPurpose
    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 license smart enable


    Example: 
    Device# license smart enable
     

    Activates Smart Licensing on the device.

    Note   

    When you enable Smart Licensing, the Cisco Software License (CSL) and all licensing calls pass through the Smart Agent.

    For the ‘no’ case, if Smart Licensing is already registered, the Smart Agent performs the ”license smart deregister” operation that deactivates Smart Licensing. Reload the device to activate the CSL on the device.

     
    Step 4 exit


    Example: 
    Device# exit
     

    Exits the global configuration mode.

     
    Step 5 write memory


    Example: 
    Device# write memory
     

    Saves the running configuration to NVRAM.

     
    Step 6 show license all


    Example: 
    Device# show license all
     

    (Optional) Displays summary information about all licenses.

     

    Smart License Disable

    SUMMARY STEPS

      1.    enable

      2.    configure terminal

      3.    no license smart enable

      4.    license accept end user agreement

      5.    exit

      6.    write memory

      7.    reload

      8.    show license all


    DETAILED STEPS
       Command or ActionPurpose
      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 no license smart enable


      Example: 
      Device(config)# no license smart enable
       

      Deactivates Smart Licensing on the device.

      Note   

      When you disable Smart Licensing, the Cisco Software License (CSL) and all licensing calls pass through the Smart Agent. For the ‘no’ case, if Smart Licensing is already registered, the Smart Agent performs the ”license smart deregister” operation that deactivates Smart Licensing. Reload the device to activate the CSL on the device.

       
      Step 4 license accept end user agreement


      Example: 
      Device(config)# license accept end user agreement
       

      Uses the license accept end user agreement command to configure a one-time acceptance of the EULA for all Cisco IOS software packages and features.

      Note   

      After the license accept end user agreement command is issued and the EULA accepted, the EULA is automatically applied to all Cisco IOS software licenses.

       
      Step 5 exit


      Example: 
      Device(config)# exit
       

      Exits the global configuration mode.

       
      Step 6 write memory


      Example: 
      Device# write memory
       

      Saves the running configuration to NVRAM.

       
      Step 7 reload


      Example: 
      Device# reload
       

      (Optional) Restarts the device to enable the new feature set.

      Note   

      Reload the device if you have not reloaded the device after configuring the Cisco One Suites.

       
      Step 8 show license all


      Example: 
      Device# show license all
       

      (Optional) Displays summary information about all licenses.

       

      Device Registration

      SUMMARY STEPS

        1.    enable

        2.    license smart register idtoken idtoken [force]

        3.    license smart deregister

        4.    license smart renew [ID | auth]


      DETAILED STEPS
         Command or ActionPurpose
        Step 1 enable


        Example: 
        Device> enable
         

        Enables privileged EXEC mode.

        • Enter your password if prompted.

         
        Step 2 license smart register idtoken idtoken [force]


        Example: 
        Device# license smart register idtoken 123
         
        Registers the device with the back-end server. Token id can be obtained from your virtual a/c in the Smart Licensing server.

        • force: To forcefully register your device irrespective of either the device is registered or not.

        Note    The device supplies the token ID to the Cisco server, which sends back a “Device Certificate” that is valid for 365 days.
         
        Step 3 license smart deregister


        Example: 
        Device# license smart deregister
         

        Deregisters the device from the backend server.

         
        Step 4 license smart renew [ID | auth]


        Example: 
        Device# license smart renew ID
         

        (Optional) Manually renews the ID certification or authorization.

         

        Troubleshooting for Cisco Smart Licensing Client

        You can troubleshoot Smart Licensing enabling issues using the following commands on the device:

        • show version

        • show running-config

        • show license tech support

        • show license entitlement

        • show license feature

        • show license certificate

        • debug smart_lic error

        • debug smart_lic trace

        Configuration Examples for Cisco Smart Licensing Client

        Example: Enabling Smart Licensing

        The following example shows how to use the license smart enable command to confirm if the Cisco ONE Suite is enabled. 

        Device# license smart enable
Currently only Cisco ONE license suites are supported by Smart Licensing.
Please make sure your Cisco ONE suites are enabled before turning on Smart Licensing. Any other licenses outside of Cisco ONE suites would be disabled and made unusable in Smart Licensing. If you have any questions, please get in touch with your Cisco representative before using this mmode.
Please confirm Cisco ONE suites are enabled? [yes/no]: yes

        Additional References for Cisco Smart Licensing Client

        Related Documents

        Related Topic

        Document Title

        Cisco IOS commands

        Cisco IOS Master Commands List, All Releases

        Cisco License Manager Application

        User Guide for Cisco License Manager

        Software Activation Conceptual Overview

        “Cisco IOS Software Activation Conceptual Overview” module

        Software Activation Commands

        Software Activation Command Reference

        Integrated Services Routers Licensing

        Software Activation on Cisco Integrated Services Routers

        Standards and RFCs

        MIBs

        MIB

        MIBs Link

        CISCO-LICENSE-MGMT-MIB

        To locate and download MIBs for selected platforms, Cisco IOS releases, and feature sets, use Cisco MIB Locator found at the following URL:

        http:/​/​www.cisco.com/​go/​mibs

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        Feature Information for Cisco Smart Licensing Client

        The following table provides release information about the feature or features described in this module. This table lists only the software release that introduced support for a given feature in a given software release train. Unless noted otherwise, subsequent releases of that software release train also support that feature.

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        Table 1 Feature Information for Cisco Smart Licensing

        Feature Name

        Releases

        Feature Information

        Cisco Smart Licensing Client

        15.5(1)T

        The Smart Licensing feature is a standardized licensing platform that simplifies the Cisco software experience and helps you understand how Cisco software is used across your network. Smart Licensing is the next generation licensing platform for all Cisco software products.

        This feature is platform-independent.

        The following commands were introduced or modified by this feature: license smart enable, show license all