Another member just sent a question about smart licensing, and it got me thinking that I should post my current issue here and see if anyone has seen this before, or if I'm crazy (or Cisco is).
Last summer I purchased 6 ASR920-12SZ-D routers/switches. These are the ones with 12 10-gig ports. Despite some initial weirdness, port issues, etc. they've actually worked rather well for us. Last week, one of them started randomly dropping offline. After investigation, Cisco replaced it. Here's where the fun starts. It almost looks like Cisco changed the licensing model for these between when we purchased them and when we received our RMA. Is that possible? All of our (I'll call them old) routers had the default port licenses and an Advanced Metro license. All 12 ports are usable at 1 gig, and 4 will operate at 10 gig. I have 5 that are running quite happily like this at remote pops right now. On the new router that was sent, only 6 ports are operational. The other 6 are disabled, and won't enable, giving me license error when I try. Cisco's telling me that the licenses on both the new and old routers match, so their job is done. I don't think I'm crazy (but if you are, would you know) -- I have the doc from cisco when we originally purchased the routers showing what license level did what, though interestingly it's no longer on Cisco's website. The new version of said docs seem to indicate that Cisco is correct and the default license gives you 6 ports. Which means I need to purchase an additional license to make my new router behave like the one I RMA-ed. This is kind of a long story to ask the question but, does anyone know if the licensing changed somehow? And if it did, what does that mean for the routers we've already deployed? thanks Shawn _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
