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I purchased two 9300L switches from the Cisco store through Amazon.com. I received my switches, and then had to jump through the amazing number of licensing hoops to register my devices with the smart license portal. That only took about 6 hours of w...
I bought two 9300L switches and want to set them up as a stack of 2 switches. I bought a kit with 2 stack adapters and 1 cable. Is this all I need to connect two switches together in a stack, or do I require 2 more stack adapters and an additional ca...
I have probably spent 5 - 6 hours at least over the last couple days reading about smart licensing with Cisco, trying to understand what I need to purchase to properly license my two 9300L Cisco switches I bought recently from the Cisco store on Amaz...
I just came here to say that your confusing, ridiculous maze of licensing hoops that you have built into these products just make me want to give up. What the hell is wrong with your product teams? You think I want to read 4000 words of text to try t...
Is anyone at Cisco reading this? It took this person 6 weeks to get his devices registered with the smart account. Amazing customer service job guys. How much of your customers' time are you intending to waste in order to make a few extra bucks on al...
I bought my switches off of Amazon, and I don't have a DNA Essentials license. Which is in fact what this entire thread is about, since Cisco's smart licensing portal is letting me know I need DNA Essentials. Congratulations again to Cisco on making ...
@Leo Laohoo wrote:DNA Essentials License is a "tax" or a "levy" -- Everyone who buys Cisco kit is going to pay for it (whether they have DNA or not). The most "basic" license anyone can get is the Network Essentials License and there is nothing else ...
I also ran into this problem recently with a 9300. The stack will not work if they are not on the same software version. I tried to do the approach with software auto-upgrade enable, but that didn't seem to work. Here is a thread about how to upgrade...
