Information About DCNM Licensed Devices
The DCNM Licensed Devices feature allows you to control which physical devices you can manage with licensed Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) features. The feature maintains a list of licensed devices. If a device is on this list, you can manage licensed Cisco DCNM features on the device.
You can add as many devices to licenses as your licenses support. For example, if you install two LAN Enterprise licenses that each support 5 devices, you can add a total of 10 devices to the list of licensed devices.
You can also remove devices from the list of licensed devices and replace them with other devices.
When you try to use a Cisco DCNM licensed feature to configure a device that you have not added to the list of licensed devices, the Cisco DCNM client does not allow you to use the feature to configure the unlicensed device.
Configuring DCNM Licensed Devices
Figure 8-1 shows the DCNM Licensed Devices content pane.
Figure 8-1 DCNM Licensed Devices Content Pane
This section includes the following topics:
Adding Devices to the Licensed Devices List
You can add managed devices to the list of Cisco DCNM-licensed devices.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
You must have installed at least one Cisco DCNM Enterprise LAN license. For more information, see the “Installing Licenses” section.
If you have already added as many devices as the maximum number of devices allowed by your licenses, you must remove one or more devices from the list of licensed devices before you can add other devices to the list. For more information, see the “Removing Devices from the Licensed Devices List” section.
DETAILED STEPS
To add a device to the list of licensed devices, follow these steps:
Step 1 From the Feature Selector pane, choose
DCNM Server Administration >
DCNM Licensed Devices
.
The Contents pane displays the list of licensed devices.
Step 2 From the menu bar, choose
Actions >
New
.
The Cisco DCNM client adds a row to the list and the Available Devices dialog box lists available and selected physical devices.
Step 3 From the Available Devices list, choose the physical devices that you want to add to the license and then click
Add
.
Step 4 Click
OK
.
The Contents pane displays a list of licensed devices, including the devices that you added.
Step 5 From the menu bar, choose
File > Deploy
to apply your changes to the Cisco DCNM server.
You can begin using licensed Cisco DCNM features when you manage the device.
Removing Devices from the Licensed Devices List
You can remove one or more physical devices from the list of Cisco DCNM-licensed devices when you no longer need to use licensed Cisco DCNM features to manage the devices.
Note When you remove a physical device from the list of licensed devices, the device and all of its VDCs are removed from Cisco DCNM. To continue managing the device, you must discover the device. For more information, see the “Discovering Devices” section.
DETAILED STEPS
To remove devices from the list of licensed devices, follow these steps:
Step 1 From the Feature Selector pane, choose
DCNM Server Administration >
DCNM Licensed Devices
.
The Contents pane displays the list of licensed devices.
Step 2 For each device that you want to remove from the list of licensed devices, follow these steps:
a. Choose the device that you want to remove from the list of licensed devices.
b. From the menu bar, choose
Actions >
Delete
.
The Cisco DCNM client displays a confirmation dialog box.
c. Click
Yes
.
The Cisco DCNM client removes the device from the list of licensed devices.
Note Devices that you remove from the list of licensed devices are no longer managed by Cisco DCNM.
Step 3 (Optional) To continue managing devices that you removed from the list of licensed devices, discover the devices. For more information, see the “Discovering Devices” section.
Viewing DCNM Licensed Devices
To view the list of Cisco DCNM-licensed devices, from the Feature Selector pane, choose
DCNM Server Administration > DCNM Licensed Devices
.
The list of Cisco DCNM-licensed devices appears in the Contents pane. For information about the fields that appear, see the “Field Descriptions for DCNM Licensed Devices” section.