Cisco Systems MDS 9000 License Expiry Alerts, Moving Licenses Between Switches, Fabric Manager Server Licensing

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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide

OL-6965-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x

Chapter 9 Obtaining and Installing Licenses

License Expiry Alerts

The Cisco MDS SAN-OS license counter keeps track of all licenses on a switch. Once an expiry period

has started, you will receive console messages, SNMP traps, system messages, and Call Home messages

on a daily basis.

Beyond that, the frequency of these messages become hourly during the last seven days of the expiry

time span. The following example uses the FICON license feature.

Your FICON license feature is scheduled to expire in 60 days. If today is December 1st, the license

expires on January 30th. In this case, you will receive:

•Daily alerts from December 1st to January 23rd.

•Hourly alerts from January 24th to January 29th.

•From January 30th, the FICON feature runs without a license for a grace period of 120 days.

•From January 30th to May 21st, you receive daily alerts about the grace period usage.

•From May 22nd to May 30th, you receive hourly alerts about the grace period ending.

•On May 31st, the FICON feature is automatically turned off.

Note License expiry alerts cannot be configured.

Caution After the final seven days of the grace period, the feature is turned off and your network traffic may be

disrupted. The grace period also applies to licensed features in Cisco MDS 9000 Family Cisco MDS

SAN-OS Release 1.2(x). While Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 1.2(x) did not enforce licenses, any future

upgrade will enforce license requirements and the 120-day grace period.

Moving Licenses Between Switches

A license is specific to the switch for which it is issued and is not valid on any other switch. If you need

to transfer a license from one switch to another, contact your customer service representative.

Note If you purchased Cisco support through a Cisco reseller, contact the reseller directly. If you purchased

support directly from Cisco Systems, contact Cisco Technical Support at this URL:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/687/Directory/DirTAC.shtml

When you install Fabric Manager, the a basic version of the Fabric Manager Server (FMServer) is

installed with it. To get the enhanced features, such as Performance Manager and remote client support)

you will need to buy and install the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Server license package.

However, trial use of these enhanced features is available. To enable the 120-day trial, you simply use

the feature as you would if you had purchased the license. You see a dialog box explaining that this is a

demo version, enabled for a limited time.