topic Re: Trial / Demo Network in Cloud Networking Platform

Trial / Demo Network

GaryShainberg — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:29:00 GMT

Friends,

We have a client who has asked us to build a PoC network for them so they can do some tests, we have all the hardware needed for this, I need to set an expectation with them on how long this will be for without licences, but I can not remember what the grace period is, is it 30 days ?

TIA

Re: Trial / Demo Network

RWelch-USA — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:29:55 GMT

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Re: Trial / Demo Network

MerakiGnome — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:31:24 GMT

Hi @GaryShainberg , as you’ve already stated you’ll have a 30 day grace period without having any trial licenses in play.

Re: Trial / Demo Network

Philip D'Ath — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:49:08 GMT

I'm not sure you can create a brand new org+network, add kit to it, and have it run without licences. That would need to be tested (or can someone verify if that works?).

You can definitely add kit to an already existing licenced org, and go into licence violation mode for 30 days.

Re: Trial / Demo Network

MerakiGnome — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:56:06 GMT

You certainly can @Philip D'Ath - I’ve done it before. The dashboard will whine about license violation but it’ll run for 30 days