01-25-2012 01:37 AM - edited 07-03-2021 09:27 PM
Hi,
Here's a quick note for anyone trying to license an NCS appliance, as I had quite a few issues understanding exactly what the UDI is that is required for licensing. This resulted in a TAC case & lost time etc., so hopefully this may save you some time if you're searching around with the same issue.
When licensing an NCS appliance, the 2 parameters you need to supply to the Cisco licensing site are the UDI (Unique Device Identifier) and the appliance serial number.
You can find the UDI & serial number by looking on the NCS web GUI under : Administration > License Center, or by doing a 'show udi' on the CLI of the NCS. The issue came (for me) when trying to decide which piece of information is the UDI. I got it wrong and hence had to raise TAC cases etc.
Let's look at the NCS web GUI first. The output for my NCS web GUI showed a UDI value similar to this:
UDI: PRIME-NCS-APL:KQxxyyy (where KQxxyyy is the serial number of the appliance)
I assumed that the UDI was 'PRIME-NCS-APL:KQxxyyy' and supplied this to the licensing web site. The UDI is actually just the 'PRIME-NCS-APL' portion of the value - this is what needed to be supplied to the licensing site.
Looking at the 'show udi' CLI option, my output looked like this:
ncs/admin# show udi
SPID: PRIME-NCS-APL
VPID: V01
Serial: KQxxyyy
The UDI value that is required to be supplied to the licensing site is the 'SPID' field, which in this case is again 'PRIME-NCS-APL'
Hopefully, in both cases, the value of the serial number is fairly self-evident
Hope this helps someone out.
Nigel.
09-06-2012 12:31 PM
Very good document .
Really appreciate you effort to simplify things and explain it for good of the community .
Its partners like you which help Cisco improve thier product line
12-25-2012 02:07 AM
Thanks, Nigel.
I was helped.
01-13-2013 07:01 AM
your quick note is faster than tac about 5min. Thanks
07-02-2013 09:01 AM
Thank you for the info helped me out
11-22-2013 08:33 AM
I just had the opposite experience. I cut/pasted the SPID and Serial number values from the CLI and my licenses wouldn't load. The error message was "UDI of file does not match the system". I opened a TAC case and they re-issued licenses based on the UDI obtained in the GUI that has the format PRIME-NCS-VAPL:hostname:xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.
11-24-2013 07:16 AM
The UDI or VUDI is both the Product ID and Serial Number----
The problem I've seen w/ the licensing website is it transposes characters in the serial number filed from upper case to lower case or visa versa
04-14-2014 06:22 AM
For NCS/PI virtual appliances do not use the UDI obtained in CLI. Instead using GUI go to Administration/Appliances to get the correct UDI - PRIME-NCS-VAPL - and serial number.
10-14-2014 11:33 AM
As you indicated, on VIRTUAL SERVERS running NCS the values for serial number + product ID MUST be obtained from the help option in the GUI interface. SHOW UDI using CLI is INCORRECT.
10-02-2014 02:54 AM
This is really helpful but it seems too late for me. I already inputed the wrong details and changing the information on the license site is showing errors now. would the correct serial number include your device's hostname?
10-06-2014 07:39 AM
10-14-2014 11:34 AM
This only applies to Cisco appliances NOT virtual servers. thanks
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