[c-nsp] Rehosting a perpetual CSR1000V license

[Chris Jones]

> On 23 Jul 2020, at 18:10, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 23/Jul/20 08:31, Saku Ytti wrote:
>> 
>> You can still have SLR
>> https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/smart-licensing/qsg/b_Smart_Licensing_QuickStart/b_Smart_Licensing_QuickStart_chapter_01000.html
>> and get persistent smart license you install on your device and it'll
>> never phone home.
>> 
>> You might want to argue an air gapped router to get itt, or if you
>> have commercial leverage apply that liberally.
> 
> Good tip, especially useful since our RR's have no BGP FIB, and as such,
> have no way to "call home".
> 
> The other option we'd looked at was the SSM (Smart Software Manager)
> on-prem, as I'm not keen on having routers make arbitrary calls to some
> cloud over at Cisco.

That’s the approach we took, with the SSM box part of the IGP so it’s reachable.

Mixture of XE and XR boxes talking to it without issue.

It’s worked well so far for us, barring some weirdness with the SSM itself deciding not to sync with Cisco sometimes.

Chris

> 
> Mark.
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