[c-nsp] Sup2T / IOS15 licensing questions

["Rolf Hanßen"]

Hello Blake,

the question was more the other direction:
How do I prove/verify I have a valid license if I receive nothing that
says "here is your Cisco license #xxxxxx for IOS Advanced IP Services on
Sup2T" ?
I now payed around 8k Dollar and only have a CD (Windows says its ever A
CDRW) with a Cisco logo + the image name / version printed on it and the
dealers invoice that I bought 1x "license".
For that price I want to be sure that it is not just a CD made by some
guys in China with a good CD printer.

kind regards
Rolf

> Well, it's copyright infringement if you knowingly violate the terms of
> the
> software licensing, so treat that as you may as far as any enforcement vs
> just buying one license and installing it on many devices.
>
> -Blake
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 5:12 PM, "Rolf Hanßen" <nsp at rhanssen.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> so there is no key or certificate or reference number at all ?
>> What prevents customers to buy one "alibi" license for all devices if
>> there is no link to the device?
>> Does it have any effect at all if you configure/install such a pseudo
>> license or not ?
>>
>> regards
>> Rolf
>>
>> > On 29/08/13 17:45, "Rolf Hanßen" wrote:
>> >
>> >> How do I see if the correct features were enabled or which type
>> (baseip,
>> >> ipservice, advipservice) is installed ?
>> >> Maybe somebody with a working and licensed router can compare the
>> output
>> >> ?
>> >>
>> >> What happens if I reboot and the license was wrong (i.e. baseip
>> only),
>> >> does the IOS reject commands in that case or is the whole licensing
>> on
>> >> 6500/7600just a dummy ?
>> >
>> > That's not how 6500 works.
>> >
>> > For 6500, on both sup720 and sup2T IIRC, the feature set is determined
>> > by the image you boot. There's no license key for "advanced IP
>> services"
>> > - you just boot that image.
>> >
>> > To see which "feature" is installed/enabled, just look to see which
>> > images is booted.
>> >
>> > The right to use the software comes from having purchased that version
>> > of the software with the chassis, or having purchased an upgrade later
>> on.
>> >
>> > See also
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/iosswrel/ps8802/ps6970/ps6017/qa_c67-661785.pdf
>> >
>> > As an example - most of our 6500 purchases came with a line item for:
>> >
>> > S733ZK9M-12218SXD
>> >
>> > ...which is the Advanced IP service package, and confers the right to
>> > use that image (and smartnet confers the right to upgrade).
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