Cisco IoT FND Licensing

Cisco IoT FND supports the classic licensing model and requires device-specific licenses to manage the devices. The software is authorized using software package licenses, while the supported devices and device types use device licenses for authorization.

Cisco offers perpetual and subscription-based licensing models for the devices. The subscription-based device licenses are valid for a specific period. Choose a period of 1, 3, 5, or 10 years. The perpetual device licenses don't expire.

The subscription-based licensing includes Cisco IoT FND maintenance and support. With perpetual licensing, Cisco IoT FND maintenance and support is an add-on purchase.

 Note

Starting from Cisco IoT FND Release 4.7.x, the new device licenses are offered through subscription-based licensing only.

Prerequisites For Cisco IoT FND Licensing

  • A software package license for the Cisco IoT FND application.

     Note

    A software package license is mandatory for each of the Cisco IoT FND instances that you're deploying. Sofware package licenses don't expire.

  • Either of the following for managing devices:

    • A set of perpetual device licenses

       Note

      Perpetual device licenses don't expire.

    • A set of subscription device licenses.

       Note

      Subscription device licenses are valid for 1, 3, 5, or 10 years.

  • Optionally, a software package license for a Geographic Information System (GIS) map.

     Note

    This license doesn't expire.

Purchasing Licenses For Cisco IoT FND

Purchase the following licenses for managing Cisco Catalyst IR8100 Heavy-Duty Series Routers for three years, in a bare metal server deployment:

  • A software package license: R-IOTFND-K9, under the IOT-FND license

  • A subscription-based device license: IOTFND-IR8100, under the IOTFND-SOFTWARE-K9 license

Similarly, purchase the perpetual licenses for managing a Cisco Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Router, in a VM deployment with Postgres:

  • A software package license: R-IOTFND-VPI-K9, under the IOT-FND license

  • A device license: L-IOTFND-IR1101, under the IOT-FND license

Cisco IoT FND Licenses and PIDs
License Type and Description PID Supported Deployments
Subscription Licensing Perpetual Licensing

Top-Level Licenses

For software package licenses and perpetual device licenses

IOT-FND

—
For subscription device licenses

IOTFND-SOFTWARE-K9

—

—

Software Package Licenses (under IOT-FND)

For a bare metal server deployment

R-IOTFND-K9

Bare metal server deployment

For a VM deployment with Oracle

R-IOTFND-V-K9

VM deployment with Oracle

For a VM deployment with Postgres

R-IOTFND-VPI-K9

VM deployment with Postgres

For GIS map

L-IOTFND-GIS-3YRS

  • Bare metal server deployment

  • VM deployment with Oracle

  • VM deployment with Postgres

Device Licenses

  • Subscription license PIDs are under IOTFND-SOFTWARE-K9

  • Perpetual license PIDs are under IOT-FND
For managing up to 100 endpoints, other than battery and cellular endpoints

IOTFND-EP-100

—

  • Bare metal server deployment

  • VM deployment with Oracle

For managing up to 1,000 endpoints, other than battery and cellular endpoints

IOTFND-EP-1K

L-IOTFND-EP-1K

  • Bare metal server deployment

  • VM deployment with Oracle

For managing up to 1,000 battery endpoints

IOTFND-BEP-1K

L-IOTFND-BEP-1K

  • Bare metal server deployment

  • VM deployment with Oracle

For managing up to 1,000 cellular endpoints

IOTFND-CEP-1K

—

  • Bare metal server deployment

  • VM deployment with Oracle

For managing Cisco IR510 WPAN Industrial Router (IR510)

IOTFND-IR509

L-IOTFND-IR509

  • Bare metal server deployment

  • VM deployment with Oracle

For managing a Cisco 1000 Series Connected Grid Router

IOTFND-CGR1000

L-IOTFND-CGR1K

  • Bare metal server deployment

  • VM deployment with Oracle

For managing a Cisco 800 Series Industrial Integrated Services Router

IOTFND-IR800

L-IOTFND-IR800

  • Bare metal server deployment

  • VM deployment with Oracle

  • VM deployment with Postgres

For managing a Cisco 800 Series Router

IOTFND-C800

L-IOTFND-C800

  • Bare metal server deployment

  • VM deployment with Oracle

  • VM deployment with Postgres

For managing a Cisco Catalyst IR1100 Rugged Series Router

IOTFND-IR1100

—

  • Bare metal server deployment

  • VM deployment with Oracle

  • VM deployment with Postgres

For managing a Cisco Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Router

IOTFND-IR1101

—

  • Bare metal server deployment

  • VM deployment with Oracle

  • VM deployment with Postgres

For managing a Cisco Catalyst IR8100 Heavy-Duty Series Router

IOTFND-IR8100

—

  • Bare metal server deployment

  • VM deployment with Oracle

For managing a Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Router

IOTFND-IR1800

—

  • Bare metal server deployment

  • VM deployment with Oracle

  • VM deployment with Postgres

For managing a Long-Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) Interface Module for Cisco 800 Series Industrial Integrated Services Router (IR800)

IOTFND-LORAWAN

L-IOTFND-LORAWAN

  • Bare metal server deployment

  • VM deployment with Oracle

  • VM deployment with Postgres

For managing a Cisco IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway

IOTFND-IC3000

—

  • Bare metal server deployment

  • VM deployment with Oracle

  • VM deployment with Postgres

For managing a Landis+Gyr N2450 Network Gateway

IOTFND-N2450

—

  • Bare metal server deployment

  • VM deployment with Oracle

Adding Licenses To Cisco IoT FND

  1. From the Cisco IoT FND Menu bar, choose ADMIN > System Management > License Center.

  2. Click the Classic Licenses tab.

  3. Click Add.

  4. In the Upload License File window, click Browse to locate the license file and then click Open.

  5. Click Upload.

     Note

    The devices in the Managed device category only consume the licenses. The devices in the the OOS device category don't consume licenses.

  6. Click Reset to cancel the selected file and search for another file.

     Note

    • If you import more devices that your Classic License allows, the import process won't fail. Any device imported beyond the license limit is marked as Unmanaged and is listed under Status in the Browse Devices panel. No other license types other than Classic Licenses support this capability.

    • The license file contains the start and end dates for managing the devices and you can't modify the dates using Cisco IoT FND.

Allocating Licenses

For a Single Domain

  1. From the Cisco IoT FND menubar, choose ADMIN > Access Management > Domains.

  2. Click the root domain name you'd like to allocate licenses to.

  3. In the License Allocation section, type in the number of licenses you'd like to assign to this particular domain in the Licenses Assigned field. For example, if your Licenses Available is 50, and type 20 in the License Assigned field, your Licenses Available would be 30.

  4. The Licenses Assigned field indicates the licenses allocated to the root domain.

For Multiple Domains

If you run multiple domains using the same Cisco IoT FND instance and you'd like to assign licenses to the subdomains, perform the following instructions:

  1. From the Cisco IoT FND menubar, choose ADMIN > Access Management > Domains.

  2. Click the sub domain name that you'd like to allocate licenses to.

  3. In the License Allocation section, type in the number of licenses that you'd like to assign to the subdomain in the Licenses Assigned field.

  4. The Licenses Assigned field indicates the licenses allocated to the subdomain.

 Note

The Licenses Available field indicates the total number of licenses available in the Cisco IoT FND instance irrespective of the domains. When you allocate licenses to different domains, the Licenses Available field reflects the total number of licenses accordingly.

Managing Licenses Using Cisco IoT FND

From the Cisco IoT FND menubar, choose ADMIN > System Management > License Center to manage licenses using Cisco IoT FND.

 Note

  • Cisco IoT FND enforces licenses while importing the devices. In case you add additional licenses, Cisco IoT FND imports permitted number of devices, as defined in the licenses.

  • Without licenses, Cisco IoT FND allows only 3 routers and 100 mesh endpoints.

Viewing The Licensing Summary

  1. From the Cisco IoT FND menubar, choose ADMIN > System Management > License Center.

  2. Click License Summary. A list of devices with their license information appear.

     Note

    The License Summary page displays the license information for devices in the Managed status only. The OOS devices aren't displayed on this page, as they don't consume any license.

For every license, Cisco IoT FND displays the following information:

Device License Summary Information
Field Description

Package Name

Name of license package.

Cisco 1000 Series Connected Grid Routers Licenses Consumed / Total

Number of Cisco 1000 Series Connected Grid Routers currently active in the network and the maximum number of CGR1000s supported by the license.

Cisco 800 Series Integrated Services Routers Licenses Consumed / Total

Number of C800 devices currently active in the network and the maximum number of C800 devices supported by the license.
Cisco IR800 Series Industrial Integrated Services Routers Licenses Consumed / Total

Number of IR800 (IR809 and IR829) devices currently active in the network and the maximum number of IR800 devices supported by the license.

Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) Licenses Consumed / Total

Number of Cisco interface modules for LoRaWAN devices currently active in the network and the maximum number of Cisco interface modules for LoRaWAN devices that are supported by the license.

Cisco IR500 Series Distribution Automation Gateway Licenses Consumed / Total

Number of IR510 devices currently active in the network and the maximum number of IR510 devices supported by the license.

Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers Licenses Consumed/ Total

The number of Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers currently active in the network and the maximum number of Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers supported by the license.

Cisco IR1101 Integrated Rugged Services Router

The number of Cisco IR1101 Integrated Rugged Services Routers currently active in the network and the maximum number of Cisco IR1101 Integrated Rugged Services Routers supported by the license.

ENDPOINT Licenses Consumed / Total

Number of endpoint devices currently active in the network and the maximum number of endpoint devices supported by the license.

CELL_ENDPOINT Licenses Consumed / Total

Number of cell_endpoint devices currently active in the network and the maximum number of cell_endpoint devices supported by the license.

Cisco Catalyst IR8100 Heavy Duty Series Routers Licenses Consumed / Total

Number of Cisco Catalyst IR8100 Heavy Duty Series Routers currently active in the network and the maximum number of Cisco Catalyst IR8100 Heavy Duty Series Routers supported by the license.

Days Until Expiry

Number of days remaining until the license expires.

Viewing the Licenses

  1. From the Cisco IoT FND Menubar, choose ADMIN > System Management > License Center.

  2. Click Classic Licenses. All the active licenses appear.

For every license file, Cisco IoT FND displays the following fields:

Field

Description

ID

License ID

PAK

Number for issuing license fulfillment, displayed as N/A.

Added At

The date and time that the license was added to Cisco IoT FND.

License Filename

Filename of the license.

Deleting the Licenses

 Note

Ensure that you have access to license files before deleting existing license files. Without licenses, Cisco IoT FND only allows registration of 3 routers and 100 mesh endpoints.

  1. Choose ADMIN > System Management > License Center.

  2. Click Classic Licenses.

  3. Check the license file ID check box that you want to delete.

  4. Click Delete.

     Note

    On deleting a license file, the devices in Out of Service (OOS) status moves to Unmanaged status. When you add the license again, the devices move back to the OOS status.

  5. Click Yes to confirm the deletion or click No to cancel the action.

Managing Licenses For OOS Devices

Action Description

Adding a license file

There is no change in the license count, as OOS devices do not consume the license.

The devices in Managed status are given priority while adding the license file. The license consumed by them are displayed on the License Summary page.

Removing a license file

Changes the device status from OOS to Unmanaged.

 Note
On re-adding the license, the devices move back to the OOS status.

License expiry

The OOS devices move to Unmanaged status on priority.

License summary page

The OOS devices do not consume license, hence they are not displayed on the summary page.

Registration

Cisco IoT FND accepts registration or tunnel provisioning request from OOS devices, but consumes license.

Tunnel Provisioning

Periodic or on-demand Metric Refresh

If there is a periodic or on-demand metric refresh request from OOS devices, then the request is dropped.

SNMP Trap Processing

The SNMP trap request is not processed for OOS devices. The user is notified with DEBUG and INFO level message on FND server.log.

Deleting OOS devices

You can delete the OOS devices directly from the Device Info page, but this action does not change the license count.

DEVICES > Field Devices > Browse Devices > Devices > More Actions > Remove Devices.