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

[Christopher M. Bomba]

Who said you had to buy the phones.  You can just put phones in with bogus MAC addresses and it will generate DLUs for those.  I thought they had to be registered but turns out that they just have to be present in the system.  You can create IP communicators or any other phone to boost the DLUs.  That is a big problem since anybody can do this.

Chris

--original message--

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

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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 4.1 system.

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 <http://www.act-eg.com/> 
	E-mail: aelnagar at act-eg.com

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Ed Leatherman
Senior Voice Engineer
West Virginia University
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