[cisco-voip] CUCM license grace period

[Norton, Mike]

If I run a cluster on invalid licenses, thus activating the 30-day grace period, are there any side effects other than the warning message about invalid licenses? I am planning to migrate a CUCM 8.6 cluster from MCS to Vmware using DRS and in my practice environment I get this error message:

"System is operating on Invalid licenses. Call Manager service will go down after the grace period of 30 days expires. Please obtain valid license files and upload."

Obviously I will need to get the correct license files, but it would sure be handy if I can procrastinate on that until after the holidays. Just wondering if there are any gotchas about using the grace period. Is it "graceful" enough for production use? In my practice, I only tried migrating the publisher (not enough hardware resources to practice migrating the whole cluster). Once I do obtain the licenses, will the cluster need rebooting?

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Mike Norton
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