Migrating from NCS 1.0 to Prime Infrastructure 1.2

[Mohit Chauhan]

Hi friends

I know i had short discussion about this before but here it comes again and this time in detail.

I have NCS 1.0 with 100 devices support license installed. Now knowing it has reached end of sale, and also for the fact that Prime does cover devices like routers, i went ahead to the upgrade path via PUT (Product Upgrade Tool).

Finally I received an email (OBA) advising my order is ready. This email included two items in the shipment,

L-N-PI12-100-M=

NCS 1.0 to Prime Infrastructure 1.2 Minor Upg 100 Device

L-PILMS42-100-M

Prime Infrastructure LMS 4.2 - 100 Device Upgrade Lic

When i click to the link in the same email to download the license, it only shows me one file which is

L-PILMS42-100-M

I tried using this file and installing on the NCS1.0 but it gives me error that this file is not a license file. The license name suggests me that it is not the license to be installed on the NCS. The file should be L-N-PI12-100-M=

Thanks for reading this all and would appreciate all your inputs here.

Regards,

Mohit

[Mohit Chauhan]

just to follow up from where i left last, i could not install the new license file on the upgraded PI 1.2. However, what i realised that whille I upgraded the new system showed me permanent license (life cycle feature set) for the same number of supported devices as it was on the NCS 1.0.

so i believe that should be it and i need not worry anymore about running on a trial license as this says permanent. I am not sure though if I could install the Assurance feature set as well through this upgarde.

[Marvin Rhoads]

Your PI 1.2 also includes the right to install and use LMS 4.2 - a separately installed and licensed server.

If you want Assurance (or Compliance) licenses for PI, they will have to be ordered separately. The license files delivedred when you buy those product SKUs will allow you to use those features. The starting point (base) in PI 1.2 is Lifecycle.

[Mohit Chauhan]

Marvin Rhoads wrote:
Your PI 1.2 also includes the right to install and use LMS 4.2 - a separately installed and licensed server.
If you want Assurance (or Compliance) licenses for PI, they will have to be ordered separately. The license files delivedred when you buy those product SKUs will allow you to use those features. The starting point (base) in PI 1.2 is Lifecycle.

when i followed the inpath upgrade,  i receved an email from the licensing that the license file is ready for download. the order said,

  Product Name          : L-PILMS42-100-M

     Product Description      : L-PILMS42-100-M : Prime Infrastructure LMS 4.2 - 100 Device Upgrade Lic     

and the attached lic file "LMS2013021XXXXXXX.lic" came along from them.

but when i installed that lic file, i got the error message from the upgarded the PI 1.2 that the file is not a license file.

The trouble is i cannot generate another lic file (if the exsting generated file was corrupt) cos the PAK is already been used once. 

Now i am wondering i can avail that LMS file that would be good, but when i spoke to the TAC, i was told that this file name doesnt seem correct as this is PI and it wont understand LMS file. It was only useful if you were upgraing from LMS to PI and because my case was NCS to PI, this will not work.

Any suggestions?

[Marvin Rhoads · Accepted solution]

You mentioned earlier that your license on the PI 1.2 server shows you have a permanent license for the lifecycle feature set. So with that, you are all set. Note your use case is explained in the PI 1.2 Quick Start Guide:

"In some cases you may not need a new license file for a given product, because your existing license files continue to work. For example, all licenses obtained with Cisco Prime NCS 1.0 continue to work with Prime NCS 1.1 and Prime Infrastructure 1.2."

You only need to use the LMS license if you should choose to install that product separately from Prime Infrastructure 1.2.

[Mohit Chauhan]

Thanks Marvin. Appreciate your help in this. cheers!