[cisco-voip] Callmanager upgrade 4.1 >>> 5.1

[Ed Leatherman]

I thought the same thing. I guess the added cost of trying to figure out how
many licenses you OR your company have ever purchased through potentially
multiple vendors, not even counting companies getting bought out or moving
hardware between systems was higher than what they would expect to lose from
people not buying licenses in the first place.

My only annoyance with the system is if I have 300 phones in stock that
arent in use when I upgrade, I need to scan them all in and provision them
in callmanager anyway just to get the DLU's from them (since they were
purchased with old device licenses). OR try to convince cisco to give me
more DLU's for them :)

On 5/2/07, Ahmed Elnagar <aelnagar at act-eg.com> wrote:
>
>  thanks Ed for your reply, yes you are right I contacted Partner help and
> they told me that during the upgrade a file will be generated that when
> given to cisco they will give us back the DLUs equivalent to what configured
> on the system. I think this is an illegal workaround for the lic. issue as
> by that someone could buy phones without lic. and then setup them with CM
> 4.1 and then upgrade and he will be having a DLUs for free. I think Cisco
> has to do something to solve this.
>
>  Thanks and Best Regards
> *
> Ahmed A. Elnagar
> *Network Field Engineer
>
> Advanced Computer Technology (ACT)
> 16 Fawzy Ramah St.Off Shehab St.Mohandessin, Giza, Egypt
> Postal Code:12411 Cairo Egypt
>
> *Mob**:* +2010-2833868
> *Website**: *www.act-eg.com
> *E-mail**: *aelnagar at act-eg.com
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Ed Leatherman [mailto:ealeatherman at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wed 02-May-07 3:16 PM
> *To:* Ahmed Elnagar
> *Cc:* cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Callmanager upgrade 4.1 >>> 5.1
>
> hi Ahmed,
>
> When you upgrade, callmanager will generate a temporary license for all
> the devices you have configured from 4.1. If I understand correctly, you
> just have to send that off to cisco's licensing group and have it converted
> to a real 5.2 license with the appropriate number of DLUs. If its anything
> like Unity licensing, the turn-around is pretty quick. I'm assuming you need
> a SASU agreement for callmanager for them to do it.
>
> We are getting ready to do the same process here this summer with our 4.1system.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Ed
>
>
> On 5/2/07, Ahmed Elnagar <aelnagar at act-eg.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Hello all;
> >
> > A customer wants to upgrade from CM 4.1 to 5.1, what I am worried about
> > is the licsences issue. How will I get the DLUs for callmanager 5.1 we
> > have a lic. with each phone but how we will get the DLUs??
> >
> >  Thanks and Best Regards
> > *
> > Ahmed A. Elnagar
> > *Network Field Engineer
> >
> > Advanced Computer Technology (ACT)
> > 16 Fawzy Ramah St.Off Shehab St.Mohandessin, Giza, Egypt
> > Postal Code:12411 Cairo Egypt
> >
> > *Mob** :* +2010-2833868
> > *Website**: *www.act-eg.com
> > *E-mail**: *aelnagar at act-eg.com
> >
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>
> --
> Ed Leatherman
> Senior Voice Engineer
> West Virginia University
> Telecommunications and Network Operations
>



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Ed Leatherman
Senior Voice Engineer
West Virginia University
Telecommunications and Network Operations
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