Cisco Cisco License Manager SDK White Paper
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Figure 1. Two-Stage Deployment Diagram
Two-Host Deployment
Some customers have policies and restrictions on physically moving hosts or equipment out from isolated network
domains. In this case, the customer should deploy Cisco License Manager on two hosts-one inside the isolated
network (Cisco License Manager server 1) and the second one in the network domain with Internet connectivity
(Cisco License Manager server 2). See Figure 2. Cisco License Manager installed in the isolated network (Cisco
License Manager server 1) has connectivity to network devices and discovers Cisco devices with licensing
capability and builds an inventory of licenses in the network. Then you can back up the Cisco License Manager
database using the following script:
clm_backup.bat <password> <absolute_backup_directory_path>
Where password is the Cisco License Manager administrator password and absolute_backup_directory_path
is the location where the backup files will be stored.
If you have security concerns about including your IP address information in the backup, please invoke the
following command to mask IP addresses from the backup:
clm_backup.bat <password> <absolute_backup_directory_path> -mask ipaddr
For example, the following script will backup all the data to the C:\CLMServer1 directory except IP addresses of
managed devices and the server hostname-related information:
clm_backup.bat cisco C:\CLMServer1 -mask ipaddr