[cisco-voip] CUCM license grace period

[Norton, Mike]

"Demo" license and "invalid" license could have different behaviour, I suppose. Anyway, it sounds like I best arrange a maintenance window in the new year just to be safe. Thanks folks!

-mn


From: Ryan Ratliff [mailto:rratliff at cisco.com]
Sent: December-21-12 2:55 PM
To: Ahmed Elnagar
Cc: MManly at tep.com; Norton, Mike; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] CUCM license grace period

There ya go, experience trumps assumptions all day long :)

-Ryan

On Dec 21, 2012, at 4:53 PM, Ahmed Elnagar <ahmed_elnagar at hotmail.com<mailto:ahmed_elnagar at hotmail.com>> wrote:

I have uploaded a license two days ago from demo to actual license and it requires CCM services restart.

Regards,
Ahmed Elnagar | Unified Communication Team Leader | CCIE #24697, Voice
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Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] CUCM license grace period

I believe you do need to restart call manager service

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On Dec 21, 2012, at 12:36 PM, "Ryan Ratliff" <rratliff at cisco.com<mailto:rratliff at cisco.com>> wrote:
You should see the warning go away immediately and if so you are good to go.  License Manager picks up the new licenses as they are added so no restarts should be required.

-Ryan

On Dec 21, 2012, at 2:20 PM, "Norton, Mike" <mikenorton at pwsd76.ab.ca<mailto:mikenorton at pwsd76.ab.ca>> wrote:

Thanks Ryan. What about when I do finally put in valid license files (before 30 days)? Will the cluster need rebooting?

-mn


From: Ryan Ratliff [mailto:rratliff at cisco.com<http://cisco.com/>]
Sent: December-21-12 8:49 AM
To: Norton, Mike
Cc: Kenneth Hayes; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] CUCM license grace period

Nothing will happen until the grace period expires.  There wouldn't be much grace in grace period that cut you off early :)

-Ryan

On Dec 20, 2012, at 7:46 PM, "Norton, Mike" <mikenorton at pwsd76.ab.ca<mailto: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.

-mn

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From: Kenneth Hayes [kennethwhayes at gmail.com<mailto:kennethwhayes at gmail.com>]
Sent: December-20-12 4:06 PM
To: Norton, Mike
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net<mailto: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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On Dec 20, 2012, at 5:12 PM, "Norton, Mike" <mikenorton at pwsd76.ab.ca<mailto: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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