[c-nsp] Rehosting a perpetual CSR1000V license

[Mark Tinka]

On 23/Jul/20 11:57, Chris Jones wrote:

> SSM only needs to check in once a year (if I remember correctly) before things REALLY break, and generally once a month if you don’t want it to alarm.  So loss of comms doesn’t phase it too much
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> It’s got an airgapped mode where it can be synced via a “sneaker net” file rather than direct https comms to Cisco, too. Not so much an issue for most SP networks I’d suggest, but I imagine it comes in useful in some circumstances where you’re dealing with a network with no internet access at all.
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> As a final point the routers also have a grace period (measured in days, but I forget how long - our SSM box stays up without too many issues other than patching) - so losing SSM for a short period of time isn’t going to cause a problem.

Thanks, Chris.

This was my assumption as well.

Mark.