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Cisco Prime Collaboration—Standard does not require a license.
In Cisco Prime Collaboration, you must navigate to Activate Business page to activate the system from Standard to Business. You can activate the Evaluation mode from within Cisco Prime Collaboration. The Evaluation period is valid up to 60 days. After the evaluation expires, you can apply for permanent license from the License Management page. If you do not apply for permanent license after the expiry of Evaluation period, the system comes back to Standard mode.
Cisco Prime Collaboration licensing is based on the endpoint quantity. The number of endpoints determine the number of licenses that you need to purchase to manage your network.
Cisco Prime Collaboration provides the license status of the Total Endpoints in the License Management page ( ).
Soft phones also consume license like hard phones; and every soft phone requires one license each even if they are sharing the same directory number as any hard phone registered in the same Unified Communications Manager.
For more information on these endpoints, see the Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance and Analytics Install and Upgrade Guide.
For Cisco Prime Collaboration, the license count is updated after a discovery task is performed. For example, for endpoints in the Managed state, a license count is updated after a few minutes (approximately five minutes) after discovery is completed.
The maximum number of endpoints that you can add during the Evaluation mode depends on whether you are using Cisco Business Edition 6000 series or Cisco Business Edition 7000 series hardware. Cisco Prime Collaboration keeps track of the number of endpoints that you have added to the inventory. When the number of devices that you can add gets close to the allowed number of devices, the system displays a warning message. You can delete some of the existing devices in your system inventory.
Caution | If the number of endpoints exceeds the license count, endpoints are randomly managed in the Cisco Prime Collaboration server. |
For details on how devices are discovered and managed, see Discover Devices. Endpoints that are not added are listed in the discovery job.
The following phones are counted in the Cisco Prime Collaboration database:
The soft clients include Cisco Unified Personal Communicator, Cisco IP Communicator, Cisco Jabber and Client Services Framework (CSF).
Analog phones connected to a voice gateway are not monitored and hence not counted.
Note | The system counts each endpoint, and counts Jabber and IP Phones separately. |
In the License Management page ( ), you can view the following Cisco Prime Collaboration License information:
For Cisco Prime Collaboration Release 11.6 and later
License Status
You must review the Cisco Prime Collaboration Quick Start Guide to learn how to register and obtain the license file for Cisco Prime Collaboration.
Note | The Business evaluation period is valid up to 60 days. Once the evaluation period is over and if the permanent license is not applied, then Cisco Prime Collaboration downgrades the system to Standard mode again. |
Prerequisite - Ensure that the virtual machine that hosts the application should have LAN reachability to the VCenter or ESXi server.
Perform the following procedure to upgrade the system to Business:
Step 1 | Click
Activate
Business from the left pane of the
Cisco
Prime Collaboration page.
The Activate Business page is displayed. | ||
Step 2 | Select one of
the following radio buttons under
Enter
License Details service parameter:
The newly added license file information appears in a table under Add License radio button.
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Step 3 | Configure the
fields on the Upgrade Virtual (VM) Capacity parameter. See the Related Topics
section for more information about the fields and their configuration options.
The Upgrade Virtual (VM) Capacity parameter is displayed only when the system needs to upgrade the virtual machine. | ||
Step 4 | Click
Activate
Business.
The
system checks the available virtual machine resources and allocates the
required memory and dynamic space.
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The following table describes the fields available under Upgrade Virtual (VM) Capacity parameter:
Field |
Description |
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Endpoints to be Monitored |
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VM Name |
Enter the name of the virtual machine where the Standard mode is currently installed. |
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Upgrade VM Resources Using |
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VCenter/ESXi User Name |
Enter a unique username for either VCenter or ESXi depending on your selection.
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VCenter/ESXi IP Address |
Enter the IP address of the server based on your preference. |
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VCenter/ESXi Password |
Enter the password for either VCenter or ESXi server authentication. |
The image license files for Cisco Prime Collaboration are mandatory if you wish to activate the Cisco Prime Collaboration applications in the production network. You can add any number of scale licenses, however, the image license file is added once for Cisco Prime Collaboration.