You can automatically track activations against your license entitlements. Also, there is no got to install the license file on each node. you'll be able to produce license pools (logical grouping of licenses) to reflect your organization structure. Cisco Smart Licensing offers you Cisco Smart Software Manager, a centralized portal that allows you to manage all your Cisco software licenses from one centralized website. Cisco Smart Licensing is often deployed on products in all 2 ways:
Smart Licensing only: These product support Smart Licensing as their only licensing choice. Association of the licenses to a Smart Account is mandatory before the customer will success use the product.
Hybrid: These products are sold with an older licensing model, like PAK, honor prime, Cisco Prime License Manager, or other proprietary licensing models. They will default to using their old licensing model, but the customer may opt to activate Smart Licensing on the products when ready.
Cisco Smart Software Manager (CSSM)
After purchase, your Cisco instruments Smart Licenses are assigned to an account that is created exclusively for your organization. You can manage any Smart Licenses your company owns by using the Cisco Smart Software Manager (CSSM)—a web-based application at cisco.com.
If you have administrative access to your account, the CSSM allows you to create additional virtual accounts within your company's master account. Doing this helps you organize device licenses based on departments or locations. When necessary, you can also transfer licenses and devices between the virtual accounts. In ciscolicense.com we provide all type of Cisco License like: Cisco Classic License, Cisco Smart License and Cisco PLR license.
CSSM Satellite
Because the Cisco License Authority is hosted at cisco.com, you need Internet connectivity from the equipment to obtain a Smart License. For security or other reasons, if you cannot connect the management interface of the devices to the Internet, you can use the CSSM satellite—a virtual version of the CSSM deployed from an OVA image. In a CSSM satellite deployment, the devices are connected to a CSSM satellite server, and the CSSM satellite server is registered to the Cisco License Authority through the Internet.
Cisco Smart License Usage Policy
Based on Cisco recent policies, customers are eligible to report their licenses to the Cisco licensing cloud in direct or indirect mode. In this regard, customers can benefit from smart licensing agent can be installed on the Microsoft Windows.
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