I thought the same thing. I guess the added cost of trying to figure out how many licenses you OR your company have ever purchased through potentially multiple vendors, not even counting companies getting bought out or moving hardware between systems was higher than what they would expect to lose from people not buying licenses in the first place.
<br><br>My only annoyance with the system is if I have 300 phones in stock that arent in use when I upgrade, I need to scan them all in and provision them in callmanager anyway just to get the DLU's from them (since they were purchased with old device licenses). OR try to convince cisco to give me more DLU's for them :)
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Ed Leatherman [mailto:<a href="mailto:ealeatherman@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ealeatherman@gmail.com</a>]<br><b>Sent:</b> Wed 02-May-07 3:16 PM
<br><b>To:</b> Ahmed Elnagar<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] Callmanager upgrade
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<div>hi Ahmed,<br><br>When you upgrade, callmanager will generate a temporary license for all the devices you have configured from 4.1. If I understand correctly, you just have to send that off to cisco's licensing group and have it converted to a real
5.2 license with the appropriate number of DLUs. If its anything like Unity licensing, the turn-around is pretty quick. I'm assuming you need a SASU agreement for callmanager for them to do it.<br><br>We are getting ready to do the same process here this summer with our
4.1 system.<br><br>Hope that helps.<br><br>Ed<br><br><br>
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