[cisco-voip]Unity Question (ANSWER)

[Erick Bergquist]

I posted the original question on the unified
messaging forum (link below) and got a reply that the
grace period is 4 hours. 

http://forum.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/NetProf?page=netprof&forum=IP%20Communications%20and%20Video&topic=Unified%20Communications&CommCmd=MB%3Fcmd%3Ddisplay_location%26location%3D.1dd90e99

--- Erick Bergquist <erickbe at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The unity licensing docs state that the server has
> to
> have a license file that matches the servers MAC
> address (primary, virtual, etc). 
> 
> I couldn't find a doc that states it continues to
> work
> with a license that doesn't match. But I guess it
> may
> depend on how you're restoring and how the license
> gets there maybe. Maybe if you're restoring from
> backup, the files are already there and license is
> not
> being added new. Maybe they let unity run as long as
> there is a license for a bit in case of disasters
> where someone had to restore to another server so
> they
> weren't totally out while the new license was
> coming.
> You could try posting something on the cisco unified
> messaging forum , there are a few cisco unity folks
> that reply out there frequently.
> 
>
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps2237/products_white_paper09186a008019c743.shtml
> 
> License Files and MAC Addresses
> 
> Each license file (except the default license file)
> is
> registered to the MAC address (physical address) of
> the network interface card (NIC) on the Cisco Unity
> server. The license file for one computer cannot be
> used on a second computer (for example, because you
> want to replace the Cisco Unity server). You must
> obtain a replacement license file registered to the
> MAC address on the second computer. See the
> "Replacing
> License Files When Replacing a Cisco Unity Server"
> section. 
> 
> --- Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> 
> > I wouldn't mind confirmation of this. When we were
> > researching backup options we decided to buy
> > hardware to backup our two Unity servers (7855s)
> and
> > were told we could simply plug in the harddrives
> and
> > it would work. We tested this and it did, but I
> > don't think we did any sort of time trial.
> > 
> >   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >   From: Erick Bergquist 
> >   To: Burton, Jason ; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
> >   Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 12:29 AM
> >   Subject: Re: [cisco-voip]Unity Question
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >   What version of Unity? Unity 4.x has license
> tied
> > to
> >   MAC file. Maybe the other machine was not
> plugged
> > in
> >   and at one time someone programmed the NIC to
> have
> >   same MAC as other machine perhaps? 
> > 
> >   I think unity will run for a few hours also (or
> >   perhaps days) before it stops due to licensing
> > issues.
> > 
> >   --- "Burton, Jason" <Jason.Burton at CoreBTS.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >   > Recently the our Unity server had a hardware
> >   > failure, long story short.
> >   > We had a machine sitting in the rack that we
> >   > restored Unity onto, its
> >   > working fine.  Now the question is why is it
> > running
> >   > alright?  Isn't the
> >   > license file based on the MAC of the NIC?  We
> > have
> >   > request in to Cisco
> >   > for a new license file, but I'm curious as to
> > why it
> >   > is working now.
> 
> 
> 
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