Enabling Smart Software Licensing

Procedure

Step 1	Choose Managed Appliance > System Administration > Smart Software Licensing.
Step 2	Click Enable Smart Software Licensing. To know about Smart Software Licensing, click on the Learn More about Smart Software Licensing link.
Step 3	Click OK after reading the information about Smart Software Licensing.
Step 4	Commit your changes.

What to do next

After you enable Smart Software Licensing, all the features in the Classic Licensing mode will be automatically available in the Smart Licensing mode. If you are an existing user in Classic Licensing mode, you have 90-days evaluation period to use the Smart Software Licensing feature without registering your appliance with the CSSM.

You will get notifications on regular intervals (90th, 60th, 30th, 15th, 5th, and last day) prior to the expiry and also upon expiry of the evaluation period. You can register your appliance with the CSSM during or after the evaluation period.

Note

New Virtual Appliance users with no active licenses in Classic Licensing mode will not have the evaluation period even if they enable the Smart Software Licensing feature. Only the existing Virtual Appliance users with active licenses in Classic Licensing mode will have evaluation period. If new Virtual Appliance users want to evaluate the smart licensing feature, contact Cisco Sales team to add the evaluation license to the smart account. The evaluation licenses are used for evaluation purpose after registration.

Note	After you enable the Smart Licensing feature on your appliance, you will not be able to roll back from Smart Licensing to Classic Licensing mode.