WS-3560CX-8XPD-S Licensing Question

[D. STM]

I know these compact switches can do many things, I finally unloaded enough old tech to pay for 75% of my new switch, rest I will pay off in next 3 weeks, since I have to budget. That said I grabbed up one of the Multigig compact models WS-3560CX-8XPD-S

Trying to understand the licensing model of these, when I went in to do a basic config, and run some commands, I get this below when I do a show license.

C3560CX#show license
Index 1 Feature: ipservices    
 Period left: 12 weeks 6  days
 License Type: Evaluation
 License State: Active, Not in Use, EULA not accepted
 License Priority: None
 License Count: Non-Counted

Do they give you ipservices as a temp license eval. I thought it was going to be ipbase, and when I first powered it up I wasn't in the console to see the EULA, so I am not sure if I go in and accept this does it turn ipservices on, or is that just an eval then it will revert to only ipbase features?

Any help would be great thank you.

[Reza Sharifi · Accepted solution]

From what I understand and what Cisco told us, you can use IP services license permanently on these switches even if you purchased them with IP base license.  Once you apply the IP services license, it should show you something like this:

This is from a 3560CX switch.

test#sh license
Index 1 Feature: ipservices     
        Period left: Life time
        License Type: PermanentRightToUse
        License State: Active, In Use
        License Priority: High
        License Count: Non-Counted

Index 2 Feature: ipbase         
        Period left: 0  minute  0  second  

HTH

[confreg01]

Can you please confirm that it is ok for it to show PermanentRightToUse and

not just Permanent...why is it saying Permanent with RightToUse?

Please some advice on this as I am in the same fix where I am not happy with the unit saying PermanentRightToUse instead of Permanent as I have always seen Permanent only for ipservices, even after upgrade.

This index in show license detail shows inactive:

Index: 4 Feature: ipservices Version: 1.0
License Type: Permanent
License State: Inactive

Switch#sh lic
Index 1 Feature: ipservices
Period left: Life time
License Type: PermanentRightToUse
License State: Active, In Use
License Priority: High
License Count: Non-Counted

Switch#sh lic detail
Index: 1 Feature: ipbase Version: 1.0
License Type: Evaluation
License State: Active, Not in Use, EULA not accepted
Evaluation total period: 8 weeks 4 days
Evaluation period left: 8 weeks 4 days
Period used: 0 minute 0 second
License Priority: None
License Count: Non-Counted
Store Index: 2
Store Name:

Index: 2 Feature: ipbase Version: 1.0
License Type: PermanentRightToUse
License State: Inactive
Period used: 0 minute 0 second
License Priority: None
License Count: Non-Counted
Store Index: 3
Store Name:

Index: 3 Feature: ipservices Version: 1.0
License Type: PermanentRightToUse
License State: Active, In Use
Period used: 2 hours 28 minutes
License Priority: High
License Count: Non-Counted
Store Index: 1
Store Name:

Index: 4 Feature: ipservices Version: 1.0
License Type: Permanent
License State: Inactive
License Priority: Medium
License Count: Non-Counted
Store Index: 0
Store Name: Primary License Storage

Index: 5 Feature: ipservices Version: 1.0
License Type: Evaluation
License State: Inactive
Evaluation total period: 8 weeks 4 days
Evaluation period left: 8 weeks 4 days
Period used: 0 minute 0 second
License Priority: None
License Count: Non-Counted
Store Index: 0
Store Name: