Get Smart with Cisco Smart Accounts! Customer Smart Account/Smart Licensing Administrator Training

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Cisco Smart Account is a powerful way to organize assets and entitlements with control over user access. Smart Licensing simplifies license activation and management across an organization.

New to Cisco Smart Accounts or Smart Licensing? Take our new administrator training. During the session we will offer a brief overview of what a Smart Account does for your company and show you how to set up Virtual Accounts, add users, view Smart License usage, transfer licenses from one product instance to another and run usage reports.

Register here for basic Customer Smart Account Administrator Training.  (Should any of the links not open directly, please copy the link location and paste it in your browser.

Region	Date and Time	Registration Link
Americas	Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 10:00 AM PT	Register here!
EMEAR	Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 7:00 AM PT	Register here!
APJC	Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 7:30 PM PT	Register here!
Japan	Monday, March 8, 2021 at 5:00  PM PT	Register here!
Americas	Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 10:00 AM PT	Coming Soon!
EMEAR	Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 7:00 AM PT	Coming Soon!
APJC	Tuesday, April 10, 2021 at 7:30 PM PT	Coming Soon!
Japan	Monday, April 19, 2021 at 5:00 PM PT	Register here!

Past session recordings ( for Japanese click here)

February 18, 2021-  Americas	Recording
February 17, 2021- EMEAR	Recording, Download Slides
February 16, 2021- APJC	Recording
February 15, 2021- Japan	Recording
January 20, 2021- Americas	Recording
January 20, 2021- EMEAR	Recording
January 19, 2021- APJC	Recording
December 8, 2020 -Americas	Recording
December 8, 2020 - EMEAR	Recording
December 8, 2020 -APJC	Recording
October 27, 2020 - Americas	Recording
October 27, 2020 - EMEAR	Recording
October 27, 2020 - APJC	Recording, Download Slides
September 22, 2020 - APJC	Recording, Download Slides
September 22, 2020 - EMEAR	Recording, Download Slides
September 22, 2020 - Americas	Recording

The attached Q&A is updated regularly following each month's sessions.

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New Deployment Method in Smart Licensing

Smart Licensing is introducing new ease of use capabilities with IOS-XE release 17.3.2 and above called Smart Licensing using Policy. It will be supported on Enterprise Campus networking devices and NextGen platforms. New capabilities requires no change to the ordering processes of hardware and software, providing a seamless experience from the moment the device is booted up. Learn more

Available Training and Learning Resources

There are aids on the Software on Demand training page for more advanced Smart Account Admin topics (just be sure to scroll down once you land on the page.) 

High-Level Information Cisco Smart Accounts - on Cisco.com Introduction to Smart Accounts – video CX Introduction to Smart Accounts and Smart Licensing – video Overview SSM Smart Software Manager – site

Commonly Searched At-a-Glance Smart Accounts – pdf FAQs Smart Accounts and Smart Licensing – pdf FAQs Smart Licensing and Smart Accounts FAQ for Partners, Distributors and Customers - site Roadmap for Smart Accounts Capabilities – pptx

Training and Videos

Getting Started	Create and Structure Smart and Virtual Account	Manage Smart Accounts
Introduction to Smart Accounts – video Getting Started Quick Reference Guide – pdf  Smart Account Roles Overview – pdf Limited Use Smart Accounts for SMBs – video Introduction to Cisco Smart Software Manager SSM – video	Create Customer Smart Accounts – video Create Virtual Accounts – video Structuring Customer Smart Accounts Overview – pdf Best Practices for Standard Partner Smart Account Structure – pdf Virtual Account Tagging – video Best Practices for Virtual Account Tagging – video Cisco Network Plug and Play Connect Capability Overview - pdf	Assign a Smart Account to an Order – video Assign a Partner to Manage a Smart Account Quick Reference Guide – pdf Assign User Groups to Manage a Smart Account – video User Groups that Span Multiple Smart Accounts – video Use Type Down Search in User Groups – video Add a new User to a Smart Account Quick Reference Guide – pdf

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Create and Structure Partner Holding Accounts	Manage Partner Holding Accounts	Distributors
Introduction to Partner Holding Accounts – video  Create Partner Holding Accounts – video Best Practices for Standard Partner Holding Account Structure – pdf	Reassign Licenses From a Partner Holding Account to a Smart Account – pdf Associate Partner BIDs to a Partner Holding Account Quick Reference Guide – pdf	Attach Mandatory DNA Subscriptions to Switching, Wireless and Routing Products Distributors Only – video Distributor Stocking and Drop-Ship Orders for Smart Licensed Enabled Products – pdf  Hardware POS Mandatory Attach and Serial Number Correction Quick Reference Guide – pdf

Translated Training and Learning Resources

Introductory Smart Account Videos	Software and Smart Account Training and Resources
Arabic – video Russian – video Turkish – video	French – site German – site Korean – site Mandarin – site
Assign a Smart Account to an Order
Chinese - video Japanese - video Korean - video Thai - video Vietnamese - video

Support

If you have support questions about Smart Accounts and Software Licensing, open a case via Support Case Manager (SCM). To learn more on how to open a case in SCM, click here.

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[Martin L]

Interesting, thanks for sharing!

[MHM Cisco World]

TKS

[OleksandrSerhiienko53484]

thanks for sharing!