[cisco-voip] Feature Request to fix Licensing issues with EM

[Anthony Holloway]

Sorry for the late reply, but yes James you are correct.  I was getting
ahead of myself trying to find the negatives.  The Owner User ID setting
would not cause the device to show up in Self Care Portal.  However, the
point remains the same, you are now arbitrarily assigning devices to users
who do not actually own them, which in and of itself is bad.  I tend to
think of the two going hand in hand, since a typical user is the owner and
the associated user.

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 10:06 PM, James Andrewartha <
jandrewartha at ccgs.wa.edu.au> wrote:

> On 18/09/15 03:33, Anthony Holloway wrote:
> > Lastly, if this were a greenfield project, and you had 100 phones with
> > 100% EM, then you would only need to buy 100 UCL Enhanced licenses to
> > cover the phones themselves, and they would not have owner user IDs,
> > just anonymous.  Then, if you need your employees, say you had 100 also,
> > to have iPad, iPhone, CSF, etc, you would need to buy another license
> > for each user.  To make it easy, say each person had three devices, then
> > you'll need 100 CUWL Standard.  So, at the end of the day, you end up
> > with 200 licenses (100 UCL Enhanced + 100 CUWL Standard).  However, if
> > you wanted to play the licensing game, you would just not buy the 100
> > Enhanced, and assign each person a random phone, because their CUWL
> > Standard would cover it.  The negative is that the UCM User page, and
> > their Jabber client on the PC/Mac, would show this random phone for them
> > to manage.
>
> Would it? I thought that went by the associated user in the line
> configuration -
>
> http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/admin/10_0_1/ccmcfg/CUCM_BK_C95ABA82_00_admin-guide-100/CUCM_BK_C95ABA82_00_admin-guide-100_chapter_01011111.html#CUCM_TK_AB8A7B9B_00
>
> AFAICT the device owner is purely used for licensing purposes. The DAT
> (nice tool) even uses the control device as a matching rule for the
> device owner. Speaking of which, is there a good tool for keeping
> control device up to date, or is it just another manual thing to keep
> track of during MACD?
>
> Thanks,
>
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> James Andrewartha
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