On Fri, 15 Jul 2022 at 03:09, Charles Sprickman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I’m doing much less work with Cisco these last few years, and you reminded me > I do have some folks with ASR-1000 series that are way, way, way overdue for > some work. I have literally no idea about how the current licensing scheme > works, nor the whole split/change to IOS. I think that’s all too basic for > this list, but if anyone here has some pointers to resources outside of > cisco’s own site that could get me up to speed a bit, I’d really appreciate > it. I would suggest to use this: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/smart-licensing/qsg/b_Smart_Licensing_QuickStart/b_Smart_Licensing_QuickStart_chapter_01000.html With it you never need to phone home after initial install and you'll never expire your license. Technical license enforcement is an entirely non-workable idea, we've had HTTPS for almost 30 years and regularly serious, well resourced companies fail to re-up their licenses before they expire. In HTTPS we can probably justify the benefits of expiry outweigh the harm, but in licensing we cannot, and we must not accept technical enforcement from any vendor. Juniper is coming up with licensing but have strategically decided not to do technical enforcement. I am not against licensing wholesale, but I want it to be a commercial problem, not a technical one. I'm fine calling home and reporting non-compliance. -- ++ytti _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
