<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><span>Liaise with Cisco licensing team (<a href="mailto:licensing@cisco.com">licensing@cisco.com</a>). They will rehost and consolidate all license files into one, So during the migration you will need to upload just one license file.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Once you do a DRS restore it will also restore those old license files as well. I have been deleting all the old license files and then upload new license file. It cleans up the new system from obsolete license files.</div><div><br></div><div>You can list and delete all the old license files before you upload new from cli by below command:</div><div><br></div><div>File list license * </div><div><br></div><div>And to delete:</div><div><br></div><span lang="EN-US">file delete license * noconfirm</span><div><br></div><div>By using wildcard * you dont have to delete files one by one, With no confirm option you dont have to confirm everytime<b>. <br></b><div><span></span><br><span>Sent from my iPhone</span><br><span></span><br><span>On 07/01/2013, at 9:41 PM, Boon <<a href="mailto:ciscovoipuser@gmail.com">ciscovoipuser@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>We are planning to upgrade a customer to CUCM 8.6 on UCS from 6.1(3) on MCS.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I understand the upgrade process but the customer has thrown us a curve ball by asking that in order to mitigate downtime on their solution we use a spare MCS server and rebuild it as a Publisher before upgrading to 6.1(4) then 8.6 ready for the DRS backup and restore onto UCS.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>They have around 50 x license files which have been added incrementally over the last few years.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>My question is whether I'll need to get each license file rehosted to the spare MCS server's MAC or whether I can simply apply for a rollup license from TAC when it's eventually restored on the UCS?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Has anybody been through a similar upgrade experience?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thanks in advance</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>cisco-voip mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip</a></span><br></blockquote></div><div><span></span></div></div></body></html>