Licensing

On the Settings page, Licensing tab you can choose licensing mode. If you have chosen Smart Licensing, you can also configure some of the Smart Licensing settings here.

You must choose a licensing mode. Choose between:

• Smart Licensing (recommended)

  When you choose Smart Licensing, then Meeting Management gets information about purchased licenses from the Cisco Smart Software Manager.

  Note: Smart Licensing for Meeting Management has the following limitations:

  • Reservation of licenses is not supported by Meeting Management.
  • There is no CLI (command line interface) for the Meeting Management Smart Licensing integration. This is by design as Meeting Management provides a graphical user interface.

• Traditional licensing

  Note: This option is only available if you already have some traditional licenses installed on connected Call Bridges. Traditional licensing is being phased out and will not be offered to new customers.

  When you choose traditional licensing, then Meeting Management gets information about purchased licenses from license files that are installed on connected Call Bridges.

  CAUTION: If any of the Call Bridges has no activation key (called callBridge or callBridgeNoEncryption in the API), then the whole cluster will be at highest enforcement level until your Meeting Server administrator installs the correct activation key on all Call Bridges.

• No licensing

  This option is only for resilient deployments. Choose this option if you have a resilient deployment, and you have enabled either Smart Licensing or traditional licensing on the other instance of Meeting Management.

Note: After you change licensing mode or add a new cluster, it may take up to 5 minutes before the changes affect the license status for connected Meeting Servers.

How to enable traditional licensing

If you have the licenses you need installed on the connected Call Bridges, then you do not need to do anything after you have chosen the traditional licensing mode.

Note: After you change the licensing mode or add a new cluster, it may take a while before Meeting Management has fetched all the usage information to update the license status. This can take from a few minutes to over 15 minutes, depending on the speed of your connection and the volume of data.

Note: If you want to test Meeting Management and do not have licenses for all features, then you can start a trial on the Licenses page.

How to enable Smart Licensing

To enable Smart Licensing:

1. Sign in to the Cisco SSM and generate a registration token.
2. Copy the token to your clipboard.
3. Open the instance of Meeting Management that you want to use for license reporting.
4. Go to the Settings page, Licensing tab.
5. Click Change.
6. Choose Smart Licensing and Save.
7. Click the Register button.
8. Paste the registration token.

9. Optional: Register this product instance if it is already registered

   Usually Cisco SSM will not let you register an instance of Meeting Management that is already registered. If you check this check box, then Cisco SSM will let you register the same instance again. This is useful if your Meeting Management has lost the registration details, for instance if you have tried to deregister and Meeting Management could not reach Cisco Smart Software Manager while deregistering.

10. Click Register.
11. When you have registered, check how many licenses you have in your Virtual Account.
12. In Meeting Management, go to the Licenses page.

13. Enter information about the licenses you have in your Virtual Account.

    Note: If you want to test Meeting Management and don't yet have licenses, then you can click Start trial instead.

Note: After you update the licensing mode or add a new cluster, it may take while before Meeting Management has fetched all the usage information to update the license status. This can take from a few minutes to over 15 minutes, depending on the speed of your connection and the volume of data.

Note: Every time you change the number of allocated licenses, it may take up to 5 minutes before the changes affect the license status for connected Meeting Servers.

Smart Licensing actions after Smart Licensing has been enabled

You can do the following:

• Renew Authorization Now: The system automatically renews your authorization daily, at midnight UTC. However, if you want to renew manually, you can do that here. This is useful if you have purchased new licenses or allocated more licenses to the Virtual Account for this Meeting Management, and you want to see the changes in Meeting Management immediately.
• Renew Registration Now: The system automatically renews your registration every 6 months. You may want to renew the registration manually if you have moved licenses to or from the Virtual Account for this Meeting Management, or if you have moved this instance of Meeting Management to a different Virtual Account.
• Reregister: You can reregister manually if you want to use different Virtual Account with this instance of Meeting Management.

• Deregister: You can deregister this instance of Meeting Management if you want to use the Virtual Account for another deployment, or if you have a resilient Meeting Management deployment and want to use the other instance for reporting.

  Note: If you change the licensing mode, then Meeting Management will automatically disable Smart Licensing and deregister from the Cisco Smart Software Manager.

  Note: If you have lost connection to an instance of Meeting Management then you can also deregister from the Cisco SSM.