Nexus 9k licenses

[dm2020]

Hi All,

I have a Nexus 9K switch that was purchased with a Cisco One Data Centre Essentials license (C1E1TN9300XF) which is required for OSPF, BGP and Multicast Routing. 

When the switch boots with these features enabled, it warns me that I dont have a license applied and that I should purchase and install a license, however, this doesn't restrict the use of these features. From what I have read, the Nexus 9K switches use honor based licenses, correct? If so, do I need to do anything with the Cisco One license as from my understanding its not tied to a specific device? 

Thank you

[Hanfeng Cai]

N9K is honor based license, all features are fully opened by default. Although you get error msg from system, there is no any actual impact. You could open a TAC case to get correct license file and stop system from generating error msg. 

[dm2020]

Hi

Thanks for the response. So as long as I have purchased a license, there is no real need to apply the license to the actual 9k switches and I can just ignore this message?

[Hanfeng Cai]

Correct, but I still recommend you install license.