[cisco-voip] Licensing going from 8.6 to 10.5

[Tim Smith]

Hi Scott,

UCSS is now replaced with ECMU (1 part that includes the ESW + UCSS – so maintenance and support)
Go through the normal steps, put in an upgrade request at  www.cisco.com/upgrade<http://www.cisco.com/upgrade>

You will get a manual licensing conversion happening, they will ask you for LCU or license request from new ELM / PLM
They will look at what you are requesting and try and line that up to your entitlement

If you don’t have phones associated and you are using Ext Mobility and CSF’s etc, they will probably tell you, you don’t have enough licensing.

At this point, you need to explain you use EM, and you will never associate owner ID’s to phones
You ask them to manually issue a license per phone to cover it
You may have to argue, it does require escalation usually, keep pushing and you should get it.

The trick is that you are not asking for more licensing than you are entitled to.

Each of your users is entitled to their phone in a UCL / UWL licensing scenario. So licensing should cover this.
To me – it’s just the way the licensing is managed / calculated and enforced that is broken
Still hoping for better fix in future.

Now, it shouldn’t have an impact on your ECMU renewals, i.e. that should still be based on the real number of users.

Hit me up on Spark if you want to chat more about it.

Cheers,

Tim

From: cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Scott Voll
Sent: Friday, 11 September 2015 2:58 AM
To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: [cisco-voip] Licensing going from 8.6 to 10.5

What is the right way to upgrade my licenses?  I know there has been talk about associating phones to users.  What is the current thought?

I have Smartnet UCSS, whatever it's called now for 1000 CM, and UC

I have ~1400 phones  mainly 7961.  a few others see below.

All Users are using EM.  All users have VM.

here is the output of the readiness report.

Licensing
Essential                       9
Basic                            0
Enhanced                     1271
Enhanced Plus              129
CUWL Standard            38
TelePresence Room      1
Unused DLUs                801

Endpoints                  Quantity
Cisco 7911                    39
Cisco 7912                    5
Cisco 7936                    6
Cisco 7937                    3
Cisco 7961                    1107
Cisco 7962                    1
Cisco 7970                    5

Cisco IP Communicator 130 (400 Really)

Cisco 8831                    20
Cisco 8861                    54
Cisco 8945                    1

Cisco DX80                  3

Third-party SIP Device (Basic) 1
Third-party SIP Device (Advanced) 9


Licensing says:

UCL Enhanced Plus 167 (not covered)
UCL Enhanced   1,276 (only 1,000 are covered)
UCL Essential     9 (not covered)
TP Room              1 (not covered)


In the end I have Less than 1000 users and would like to just do the CUWL Standard for 1000.

What is the best way to move forward?

TIA

Scott

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