<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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.<div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">-Ryan</span>
</div>
<br><div><div>On Dec 21, 2012, at 2:20 PM, "Norton, Mike" <<a href="mailto:mikenorton@pwsd76.ab.ca">mikenorton@pwsd76.ab.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Thanks Ryan. What about when I do finally put in valid license files (before 30 days)? Will the cluster need rebooting?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">-mn<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ryan Ratliff [mailto:rratliff@<a href="http://cisco.com">cisco.com</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>December-21-12 8:49 AM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Norton, Mike<br><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Kenneth Hayes; <a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [cisco-voip] CUCM license grace period<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Nothing will happen until the grace period expires. There wouldn't be much grace in grace period that cut you off early :)<o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">-Ryan</span></span><o:p></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">On Dec 20, 2012, at 7:46 PM, "Norton, Mike" <<a href="mailto:mikenorton@pwsd76.ab.ca" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">mikenorton@pwsd76.ab.ca</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">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.<br><br>-mn<br><br>________________________________<br>From: Kenneth Hayes [<a href="mailto:kennethwhayes@gmail.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">kennethwhayes@gmail.com</a>]<br>Sent: December-20-12 4:06 PM<br>To: Norton, Mike<br>Cc:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br>Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] CUCM license grace period<br><br>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.<br><br>Sent from my iPhone<br><br>On Dec 20, 2012, at 5:12 PM, "Norton, Mike" <<a href="mailto:mikenorton@pwsd76.ab.ca" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">mikenorton@pwsd76.ab.ca</a><<a href="mailto:mikenorton@pwsd76.ab.ca" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">mailto:mikenorton@pwsd76.ab.ca</a>>> wrote:<br><br>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:<br><br>“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.”<br><br>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?<br><br>--<br>Mike Norton<br>I.T. Specialist<br>Peace Wapiti School Division No. 76<br>Helpdesk: 780-831-3080<br>Direct: 780-831-3076<br>_______________________________________________<br>cisco-voip mailing list<br><a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><<a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a>><br><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>cisco-voip mailing list<br><a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "></p></div></div></div></div><br></div></body></html>