[cisco-voip] CUCM license grace period

[Kenneth Hayes]

30 days is a bit weird to me. I always thought it was 60 days.

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On Dec 20, 2012, at 7:47 PM, "Norton, Mike" <mikenorton at pwsd76.ab.ca> wrote:

> Even before the 30 days? I will get the proper license files eventually I'm just wondering if it is considered "okay" to rely on the grace period for a couple weeks so I can stuff my face with Christmas goodies instead. The error message implies the CM service will run for 30 days before stopping but I'm hoping somebody can confirm.
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> -mn
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> ________________________________
> From: Kenneth Hayes [kennethwhayes at gmail.com]
> Sent: December-20-12 4:06 PM
> To: Norton, Mike
> Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] CUCM license grace period
>
> Cisco Call Manager services will stop and cannot be restarted until you license the node. See if you can get the NFR Kit for Unified Communications.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Dec 20, 2012, at 5:12 PM, "Norton, Mike" <mikenorton at pwsd76.ab.ca<mailto:mikenorton at pwsd76.ab.ca>> wrote:
>
> 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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