[cisco-voip] Cisco Expressway 14.2 and Smart Licensing

[Riley, Sean]

Thanks for the detail, very helpful.

From: Brian V <bvanbens at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2022 5:51 PM
To: Riley, Sean <SRiley at robinsonbradshaw.com>
Cc: cisco-voip voyp list <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Cisco Expressway 14.2 and Smart Licensing

I've done it on 14.0.x.  Every node in an expressway cluster needs to be configured individually.
Make sure you see any required licenses in the smart portal first (especially Rich Media for B2B calls)
The process won't "automatically" migrate PAKs to Smart.
If you need to roll back to PAK based (assuming you're prior to 14.2) you need to factory reset the Expressway.
I'm staying away from 14.2 at the moment.  there was a 14.1 beta, it never shipped.
The release notes for 14.2 indicate some major changes with session limits and TLS.
Given Cisco's recent track record with software quality, i'm going to let that one sit for awhile.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 2:45 PM Riley, Sean <SRiley at robinsonbradshaw.com<mailto:SRiley at robinsonbradshaw.com>> wrote:
Reading through the upgrade notes for Expressway 14.2, Smart Licensing is required.

I am debating if I should configure Smart Licensing first on my 14.0.7 Expressways before upgrading or after the upgrade.  My initial thought is to do it before, so I don’t have to deal with it after the upgrade.

For those of you who may have already made the move to Smart Licensing on your Expressways, any service disruptions while you got it configured and working?  Seems the Expressway E only needs to be able to talk to https://smartreceiver.cisco.com/licservice/license.

Thanks for any guidance on this.

Sean.
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