Accessing Smart Licence

[broow]

We have a Cat9500 we are using as a intermittent switch for public ISP access to take advantage of the 10 Gig linkups.  The switch is not to be part of our internal network other than the Management interface for configurations.  My concern is how to get the switch access to the internet to access the Licencing server at Cisco?  What options if any do i have?

[Paw_Paw]

Hey broow

You can use the Management interface if you have Internet Access on that. If you don't have internet access at all, you have to do it manually.

Download the Files from your switch:

Device# license smart save usage all bootflash:all_rum.txt
Device# copy bootflash:all_rum.txt tftp://10.8.0.6/all_rum.txt 

Upload in Smart License Portal. This is for version 17.3. Be careful, they changed smart licenses between 16.6 and 17.3

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst9300/software/release/17-3/configuration_guide/sys_mgmt/b_173_sys_mgmt_9300_cg/sl_using_policy.html#Cisco_Concept.dita_7057e18c-3c69-4d91-841b-0b5beb7a2d88

That's the guide for 9300, but I guess it is no different for 9500.

Regards