I've installed it on two different environments. One thing I have noticed is MRA just flat out doesn't work after the initial install. I have to perform another restart on the C and E before it began working. It's completely stable after that though....

So far I've personally seen the issue impacting X14.2.1 and X14.2.2. After working with TAC, it looks like there is a planned upgrade release on February 15th for X14.2.5 that includes a fix for this issue. As I also have an expressway that has a tim...

It is not. Direct is connecting directly to the Cisco hosted Smart Licensing servers. On-prem uses a satellite server.

Cisco has posted this bug in relation to this issue: https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCwe09378   The work around is to use a satellite server for now. Forcing their customers to spin up a new server to correct this is not an ideal solu...