topic Re: Smart Licensing in IP Telephony and Phones

Smart Licensing

mightyking — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:23:07 GMT

Hello Everyone,

We are using CUCM 10.5 and planing to migrate to Smart Licensing. Would there be any operational impact while performing the migration? I was told we may need to regenerate and install the certificates.

Thanks,

Re: Smart Licensing

Jaime Valencia — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:47:15 GMT

Smart licensing is only for 12.x+, are you also planning to upgrade CUCM?

Re: Smart Licensing

mightyking — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:51:58 GMT

Yes, would there be any regeneration/installation of certificates?

Thanks,

Re: Smart Licensing

Jaime Valencia — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:59:21 GMT

No, where did you read that?

Re: Smart Licensing

mightyking — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:24:26 GMT

I read nowhere, was told by a friend who has done it before.

I guess the Cisco License Manager need to be restarted.

Do the phones need to be restarted?

We are using PLM and not ELM, would that make any difference?

Thanks,

Re: Smart Licensing

Jaime Valencia — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:33:43 GMT

No you don't need to restart phones, no version has ever required to reset phones for licensing.

Licensing takes the info based on what is configured in the DB, doesn't even care if the phone is registered or not.