Ironport C170 Central Management Feature...

[qquineypp]

We have a SINGLE Ironport C170 that was set up by an IT Services group here over 6 years ago- before I was hired. We have been getting the following message e-mailed to us recently:

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The Warning message is:

Your "Centralized Management" key will expire in under 5 day(s).  Please contact your authorized Cisco sales representative.

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Our concern here is this:

We do not use "Centralized Management"- we only have one office, one E-mail Security appliance. Should we worry about this feature expiring? Is this a Feature Key that we will need to purchase a renewal for? I appreciate any insight into this issue.

Q.M. Quiney

Network Admin

Precision Payroll of America

[Jernej Vodopivec]

Centralized management key was separate (non-free) feature key for connecting multiple appliances in the cluster. Now this license key is included in all newer SW versions in the base license.

If you're not using multiple appliances you don't need this feature and you can ignore this warning.

Just to be sure you're not using a single appliance in a cluster check cluster status with CLI->clusterconfig.

[qquineypp]

Thank you for your help on this. There are NO other Ironport devices in our environment, and we have no other offices or locations that would need to use a Centrally managed device like this one; thus we can ignore this message. Thanks!

Q.M. Quiney

Network Admin

Precision Payroll of America

[Robert Sherwin]

Correct!  And - if you upgrade to 8.5.x, it is included in the OS now, and no separate key needed!

https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/12326021/centralized-management-feature-key-ironport-c380