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NSO standby server license activation

ryan-hitch
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Level 4

I am getting ready to activate an NSO standby server and am curious about the order of operations here. The Smart licensing account has two licenses added:

NSO-platform-production

NSO-platform-production-standby


A license is already consumed by NSO-platform-production.

How will the Smart licensing server tell that I am activating a standby server when I activate the secondary.

 

Also, the smart-license NSO vm seems to fail to start when I have "ha" enabled in ncs.conf on the secondary server.

"show smart-license smart-agent start-status" shows as stopped, when "ha" is enabled in ncs.conf of the secondary server. Not sure why that is the case, and I am hesitant to add the license without this in the configuration without being sure what the criteria is for the licensing server to tell that the server being added is a standby server.

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ryan-hitch
Level 4
Level 4

I learned two things here regarding Cisco Smart Licensing <shudder>:

- the Smart Licensing service only appears to run on a "master" NSO server

- Activating Smart Licensing is not required on slave servers

Once the slave server is talking to the master, the following commands shows that the master starts to consume a NSO-platform-production-standby" license

 

request smart-license show all

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ryan-hitch
Level 4
Level 4

I learned two things here regarding Cisco Smart Licensing <shudder>:

- the Smart Licensing service only appears to run on a "master" NSO server

- Activating Smart Licensing is not required on slave servers

Once the slave server is talking to the master, the following commands shows that the master starts to consume a NSO-platform-production-standby" license

 

request smart-license show all

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