9800 WLC and AP licenses

[Adnan Razi Khan]

I have 9800 WLC with Advantage license. If i purchase WAP with Essential License. How can veryfy / check each WAP license on WLC?

[marce1000]

          - You may find these commands useful :
              show license air entities summary
                show license status
                show license summary
                show license tech support
                show tech-support license

 M.

[Rich R]

You cannot mix and match essential and advantage licenses on the WLC.  You configure the WLC for essential or advantage - then the WLC will request the corresponding license from Smart Licensing for each AP according to what you configured on the WLC and regardless of what you purchased with the AP.  So if your APs have essential licenses then you MUST configure the WLC for essential.  If you configure the WLC for advantage then you MUST buy advantage licenses for the APs.
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/wireless/catalyst-9800-series-wireless-controllers/215635-licensing-on-9800-wireless-lan-controlle.html#anc6

To check what licenses you have purchased login to your smart account and see what you have there:
https://software.cisco.com/software/csws/ws/platform/home?route=module/SmartLicensing