Cisco Cisco License Manager SDK Ficha De Dados

Data Sheet

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Faster failure recovery by deploying licenses from the database or retrieving all licenses for

a given device from the license server on the Cisco Website

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Troubleshooting capabilities and X.733-based alerts

Key Features and Benefits

Cisco License Manager 2.2 helps users increase productivity, reduces the complexity of licensing,

protects your investment, provides faster failure recovery and enhanced security, and assists in

audit compliance, among other benefits.

Increased Productivity

Some Cisco IOS Software-based devices, such as Cisco Catalyst

3750-E and 3560-E Series

Switches, need license keys to activate software features on them. These license keys are locked

to a device and can be obtained from the Cisco Product Registration portal on the Cisco Website

by specifying the UDI of a device and the PAKs supplied by Cisco. The license keys can be

deployed on the associated devices using the Cisco IOS Software command-line Interface (CLI).

This software activation workflow consists of multiple manual steps and may not scale well for

networkwide deployments. You can automate this workflow and accelerate the license-deployment

process using Cisco License Manager’s intuitive GUI (Figure 3). It scales to large networks and

can support up to 30,000 devices. Cisco License Manager can significantly reduce the time for

large-scale license deployment with a deployment speed of 250 licenses per minute, and it

enables you to rapidly roll out new services based on these licensed features.

Cisco License Manager provides a simple, rule-based policy language to completely automate

software activation and license management, enabling write-once, run-again capabilities. You can

create simple rule-based policies using common device attributes such as device model, device

group, and IP address range and assign a PAK to this policy. You can then execute that

predefined policy on an on-demand basis, and Cisco License Manager will automatically obtain

and deploy appropriate licenses to the managed devices, matching against the rules in the policy.

This will be very helpful in scenarios where new devices are provisioned on a periodic basis.

Figure 3. Policy-Based License Management Interface of Cisco License Manager