[c-nsp] Rehosting a perpetual CSR1000V license

[Seth Mattinen]

On 7/20/20 9:58 PM, Mark Tinka wrote:
> 
> On 20/Jul/20 19:20, Seth Mattinen wrote:
>> Does Cisco no longer honor previously purchased perpetual CSR1000V
>> licenses now that they're EOS? I had a host die and reinstalling the
>> VM (ESXi) from the OVA results in a new serial number my license file
>> won't work on, and trying to use the online license manager to rehost
>> it claims the new serial number is invalid. I tried opening a case
>> online but it's been unanswered for a week now.
>>
>> Has anyone tried to rehost a CSR1000V after hardware failure and got
>> the invalid serial number error, and how did you get that fixed?
> Do you know when this capability was EoL'ed?
> 
> We recently re-hosted some CSR1000v and ASR1002-X licenses as recently
> as August last year.


Someone jumped in and sent me an updated license. As far as why it can't 
be done online, I'm not sure. I haven't tried to rehost anything in a while.