NSO Smart Licensing

[khgrant]

Hi team

NSO 4.2 recently introduced Cisco Smart Licensing. I understand that by default NSO has 75 days in “EVALUATION MODE”. What happens to the NSO once 75 days run out? Does the 75 day clock reset with an NSO upgrade?

We are working to get the Smart Licensing setup for my customer but I need a plan B to ensure NSO works un-interrupted. I think we have about 35-40 days remaining since the last NSO install/upgrade.

Thanks in advance.

 
Nick Khemani

[khgrant]

Hi Nick,

We ran into a similar issue recently.

Once the evaluation period ran out, it appeared that we weren’t able to do a “package reload”. I’ve copied Krishna to confirm. We had to do a smart-license “renew” CLI command in NSO. The evaluation period got extended.

I was under the impression that smart-license has no enforcement. So this was something new.

Thanks,

Bilal.

[khgrant]

Just to clarify.

There are no limitations what so ever added in NSO that depends on the license status.

It is completely non-limiting. The only thing it does is that information is added to the logs and if possible

also report the status to the smart licensing server.

If any other behaviour is observed it should be reported as a potential bug.

Tomas Mellgren

[khgrant]

Thanks for the responses.

@Bilal – do we have a confirmed bug with the Licensing behavior post EVAL expiration? What version of NSO did you come across this in? We are running 4.2.1.4 in our customer’s PROD environment.

Lastly, did the Smart license “renew” command restore full NSO functionality once executed?

Thanks & Regards,

 
Nick Khemani

[khgrant]

We have seen the issue with the package reload functionality after the evaluation license expired . NSO reported an error that the package reload cannot be done until the upgrade is finished . This issue was seen on a NSO test server .

We have enabled the development mode and have to restart the NSO to make it reload the packages . Please find the logs below.

packages reload

>>> System upgrade is starting.

>>> Sessions in configure mode must exit to operational mode.

>>> No configuration changes can be performed until upgrade has completed.

>>> System upgrade has been cancelled.

Error:

admin@ncs# show license summary

Smart Licensing is ENABLED

Registration:

  Status: UNREGISTERED

License Authorization:

  Status: EVALUATION PERIOD EXPIRED

License Usage:

  License                     Entitlement Tag                                                                                Count        Status

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                              regid.2015-10.com.cisco.NSO-platform-development-test,1.0_fe119c6e-43be-4b2a-9093-fe4a232a5bcc 1            EvalExpired

                              regid.2015-10.com.cisco.NSO-platform-production,1.0_d1445dab-9d96-4593-99f2-6f633b8a759c       0            EvalExpired

                              regid.2015-10.com.cisco.NSO-network-element,1.0_5d641fa0-757d-43b0-a926-166cb6e3cfdd           0            EvalExpired

                              regid.2015-10.com.cisco.a10-acos-NED,1.0_e32fb670-152b-4578-99a3-0dbf76d60923                  0            EvalExpired

                              regid.2015-10.com.cisco.cisco-ios-NED,1.0_d9eca34d-1f6a-4595-ad74-9c0c57e03c27                 0            EvalExpired

                              regid.2015-10.com.cisco.cisco-iosxr-NED,1.0_9956fc34-cbed-4d13-a1ea-6a36f4e40a99               0            EvalExpired

                              regid.2015-10.com.cisco.cisco-nx-NED,1.0_e1f22074-b2c9-4ed7-a611-7c7d0ccc1429                  0            EvalExpired

                              regid.2015-10.com.cisco.juniper-junos-NED,1.0_214a34b6-283b-42cf-876e-dd7e8c0cdbc3             0            EvalExpired

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The following log was also observed

ncs.log

<INFO> 9-Dec-2016::17:03:59.971 ncs-poc-01 ncs[18486]: - Smart Licensing Entitlement Notification: type = "notifyEnforcementMode", agentID = "sa1", notificationTime = "Dec 9 17:03:55 2016", version = "1.0", requestedDate = "Dec 9 15:33:38 2016", tag = "regid.2015-10.com.cisco.NSO-platform-production,1.0_d1445dab-9d96-4593-99f2-6f633b8a759c", enforceMode = "evalExpired", daysLeft = 0, expiryDate = "Dec 9 15:33:38 2016", requestedCount = 0

admin@ncs# license smart development enable

ok

admin@ncs# show license all

Smart Licensing Status

=======================

Smart Licensing is ENABLED

Registration:

  Status: UNREGISTERED

  Export-Controlled Functionality: Not Allowed

License Authorization:

  Status: EVAL MODE

  Evaluation Period Remaining: 0 days, 0 hr, 0 min, 0 sec

  Last Communication Attempt: NONE

Evaluation Period:

  Evaluation Mode: In Use

  Evaluation Period Remaining: 0 days, 0 hr, 0 min, 0 sec

License Usage

=============

License Authorization Status: EVALUATION MODE

  Evaluation Period Remaining: 0 days, 0 hr, 0 min, 0 sec

(regid.2015-10.com.cisco.NSO-platform-development-test,1.0_fe119c6e-43be-4b2a-9093-fe4a232a5bcc)

  Description: API unavailable

  Count: 1

  Version: 1.0

  Status: EvalExpired

(regid.2015-10.com.cisco.NSO-platform-production,1.0_d1445dab-9d96-4593-99f2-6f633b8a759c)

  Description: API unavailable

  Count: 0

  Version: 1.0

  Status: EvalExpired

(regid.2015-10.com.cisco.NSO-network-element,1.0_5d641fa0-757d-43b0-a926-166cb6e3cfdd)

  Description: API unavailable

  Count: 0

  Version: 1.0

  Status: EvalExpired

(regid.2015-10.com.cisco.a10-acos-NED,1.0_e32fb670-152b-4578-99a3-0dbf76d60923)

  Description: API unavailable

  Count: 0

  Version: 1.0

  Status: EvalExpired

(regid.2015-10.com.cisco.cisco-ios-NED,1.0_d9eca34d-1f6a-4595-ad74-9c0c57e03c27)

  Description: API unavailable

  Count: 0

  Version: 1.0

  Status: EvalExpired

(regid.2015-10.com.cisco.cisco-iosxr-NED,1.0_9956fc34-cbed-4d13-a1ea-6a36f4e40a99)

  Description: API unavailable

  Count: 0

  Version: 1.0

  Status: EvalExpired

(regid.2015-10.com.cisco.cisco-nx-NED,1.0_e1f22074-b2c9-4ed7-a611-7c7d0ccc1429)

  Description: API unavailable

  Count: 0

  Version: 1.0

  Status: EvalExpired

(regid.2015-10.com.cisco.juniper-junos-NED,1.0_214a34b6-283b-42cf-876e-dd7e8c0cdbc3)

  Description: API unavailable

  Count: 0

  Version: 1.0

  Status: EvalExpired

Product Information

===================

UDI: PID:Tailf-NSO,SN:07ae4141-abde-4517-a8ea-e000888a4547,IP:124.252.205.7

Agent Version

=============

Smart Agent for Licensing: 1.2

Development mode: enabled

admin@ncs# show license status

Smart Licensing is ENABLED

Registration:

  Status: UNREGISTERED

  Export-Controlled Functionality: Not Allowed

License Authorization:

  Status: EVAL MODE

  Evaluation Period Remaining: 0 days, 0 hr, 0 min, 0 sec

  Last Communication Attempt: NONE

Development mode: enabled

Thanks and Regards,

Krishna Kumar Shanmughom

[khgrant]

Thanks, Krishna. Could you confirm the NSO release you encountered this issue with? Sounds like plan B would be to put NSO into DEVELOPMENT mode.

Thanks & Regards,

 
Nick Khemani

[khgrant]

Hi Nick,

   We are using NSO 4.2.1 version.

Thanks and Regards,

Krishna Kumar Shanmughom