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 enabled before using the Smart Licensing Client feature.

Restrictions for Cisco Smart Licensing Client

  • Only one licensing mode, either the Cisco IOS Software License (CISL) and Cisco ONE or the Smart Licensing mode is supported at one point in time.

Information About Cisco Smart Licensing Client

Cisco Smart Licensing - An Overview

A licensing model, based on a single technology, Smart Licensing has been designed for Cisco, which is intended to provide Enterprise-level Agreements for all Cisco products. Smart Licensing provides a software inventory management system that provides Customers, Cisco, and selected Partners with information about Software Ownership and Software Utilization.

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Smart Licensing is software based end-to-end license platform that comprises several tools and processes that authorizes customers to use and to report Cisco products. Smart licensing has the capability to capture a customer's order and to communicate with Cisco Cloud License Service through the Smart Call Home Transport Gateway. Additionally, the Smart Call Home Transport Gateway helps to complete product registration and authorization based on the desired performance and technology levels of Cisco products. To know more about Call Home, refer to Call Home.

Benefits of Smart Licensing are the following:

  • The Smart Licensing feature is aimed at giving users an experience of a single, standardized licensing solution for all Cisco products. Adding support for CiscoONE suites in the Cisco IOS Software License (CISL) and Smart Licensing mode, including the Foundation Suite and Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) Suite.

  • Smart Licensing feature provides the ability to switch between traditional licensing (CSL) and Smart Licensing mode

  • The Smart Licensing feature supports four software universal images NPE, NO-LI, NPE-NO-LI, and Non-NPE images.

Transitioning from CSL 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. 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 removal of the configuration or command.

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

Smart Licensing supports Smart License Cisco ONE suite level licenses and image licenses, such as ipbase, Advanced IP Services (AIS), Advanced Enterprise Services (AES) and feature license and throughput performance, crypto throughput and port licensing on ASR 1000 Aggregation Series Routers.

To know more about Cisco One Suites, please refer to Cisco ONE Suites.

How to Activate Cisco Smart Licensing Client

Enable Smart Licensing

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.    exit

      5.    write memory

      6.    reload

      7.    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 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(config)# exit
       

      Exits the global configuration mode.

       
      Step 5 write memory


      Example: 
      Device# write memory
       

      Saves the running configuration to NVRAM.

       
      Step 6 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 7 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: Displays summary information about all licenses

        The following example shows how to use the show license all command to display summary information about all licenses. 

        Device# show license all
Cisco Smart Licensing Agent, Version 1.0.0_development

Smart Licensing Enabled: Yes

UDI:
PID:CISCO2911/K9,SN:FTX1643AJFR

Compliance Status: In Compliance

Assigned License Pool: ISR_G2_Cisco_One

Grace period: Not in use

Entitlement:
    Tag: regid.2014-06.com.cisco.ISR_2900_FS_ENT,1.0_71846b6b-db2a-46f3-9c8e-ce0fc68882fc, Version: 1.0, Enforce Mode: Authorized
    Requested Time: Wed Oct 29 23:34:58.011,  Requested Count: 1
    Vendor String: 

Smart Licensing State: authorized (4)

Licensing Certificates:
    ID Cert Info:
        Start Date: Oct 29 23:42:33 2014 UTC. Expiry Date: Oct 29 23:42:33 2015 UTC
        Serial Number: 97879
        Version: 3
        Subject/SN: 241e4492-9582-4f0a-9b01-221fdecc2a1b
        Common Name: 1A4BF5460E0939AED4D14B2E3C7CD809A98CFCC9::1,2
    Signing Cert Info:
        Start Date: Jun 14 20:18:52 2013 UTC. Expiry Date: Apr 24 21:55:42 2033 UTC
        Serial Number: 3
        Version: 3

Upcoming Scheduled Jobs:
    Certificate Renewal: Apr 27 23:45:24 2015 UTC (179 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, 47 seconds remaining)
    Certificate Expiration: Oct 29 23:42:39 2015 UTC (364 days, 23 hours, 57 minutes, 2 seconds remaining)
    Authorization Renewal: Nov 28 23:45:35 2014 UTC (29 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, 58 seconds remaining)
    Authorization Expiration: Jan 27 23:42:54 2015 UTC (89 days, 23 hours, 57 minutes, 17 seconds remaining)
    Daily Job: Oct 30 23:28:04 2014 UTC (23 hours, 42 minutes, 27 seconds remaining)

        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

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        Software Activation Commands

        Software Activation Command Reference

        Integrated Services Routers Licensing

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        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.

        Use Cisco Feature Navigator to find information about platform support and Cisco software image support. To access Cisco Feature Navigator, go to www.cisco.com/​go/​cfn. An account on Cisco.com is not required.
        Table 1 Feature Information for Cisco Smart Licensing

        Feature Name

        Releases

        Feature Information

        Cisco Smart Licensing Client

        Cisco IOS Release XE 3S

        Cisco IOS XE Polaris 16.5.1

        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