Table Of Contents

Licensing

Licensing Overview

Licensing for a Fresh Installation

Registering Your License

Upgrading Your Evaluation License

Validating Your Upgrade License

Licensing Reminders

Evaluation Version—Before Expiry

Purchased Version—No License File

Device Limit—Approaching the Actual Limit

Device Limit—Number of Devices Exceeded

Licensing

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This chapter provides licensing information for Resource Manager Essentials 4.0.5. The license considerations for RME 4.0.3 holds good for RME 4.0.5 as well.

The license is registered while installing RME 4.0.3. The same license is valid for RME 4.0.5.

The sections in this chapter cover the licensing prerequisites and considerations for RME 4.0.5:

•Licensing Overview

•Licensing for a Fresh Installation

•Licensing Reminders

Licensing Overview

To install RME 4.0.5 application, you must have a registered and a licensed copy of RME 4.0.3 and LMS 2.6 CD. You can select either of these two versions of the RME license:

•Enterprise Restricted: Allows you to manage upto 300 devices.

•Large Enterprise Unrestricted: There is no limit on the number of managed devices.

The installation script prompts for the first application that you install on Common Services 3.0.3 to enter licensing information.

Table 5-1 describes PAK, PIN, License file and their usage:

Table 5-1 Understanding PAK, PIN and License file

Field	Description
Product Identification Number (PIN)	The PIN is printed on the software claim certificate. The RME installation program prompts you to enter the PIN during installation. If you cannot get an authenticated license during installation, use the PIN to proceed with the installation. If you enter only a PIN, RME will run normally, but you will be periodically reminded to complete the licensing process.
Product Authorization Key (PAK)	The PAK is printed on the software claim certificate. Use the PAK to get your license file from Cisco.com. PAK is used to register RME 4.0.3 on Cisco.com. You may obtain and install your license file at any time while you are working on RME, not necessarily when you install the product. We recommend that you complete the RME license registration and receive the product license before installing RME 4.0.3. If the person installing RME is not authorized to obtain the license on behalf of the administrator, the product can be successfully installed for a period of time using only the PIN. In this case, the product will automatically remind the administrator to complete the licensing process.
License file	When you register your RME purchase on the product licensing area of Cisco.com, you will receive a license file. You must provide your PAK to receive a license file. If you are a registered user of Cisco.com, get your license file from: http://www.cisco.com/go/license If you are not a registered user of Cisco.com, use this site to get your license file: http://www.cisco.com/go/license/public When you log into Cisco.com, it allows your Cisco user profile information to auto-populate many of the product registration fields. Login is case sensitive.

Licensing for a Fresh Installation

When you install RME 4.0.3 over CiscoWorks Common Services 3.0.3, the installer checks whether the system already has the PIN, PAK and license file details.

These details are available if the information was provided earlier using another CiscoWorks application such as, DFM, IPM and so on.

During RME 4.0.3 installation, if PIN, PAK and licence details are not available in the system, the installer prompts you to enter the licence file location.

For details see, "Registering Your License" section.

Registering Your License

We recommend that before you install RME, you must register the product and receive a permanent license.

To license RME, you must:

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Step 1 Register RME using the PAK with Cisco.com to get your license file.

The PAK is printed on the software claim certificate.

•If you are a registered user of Cisco.com, get your license file from:
http://www.cisco.com/go/license

•If you are not a registered user of Cisco.com, use this site to get your license file: http://www.cisco.com/go/license/public

When you log into Cisco.com, it allows your Cisco user profile information to auto-populate many of the product registration fields. Login is case sensitive.

Step 2 After you install Common Services 3.0.3, copy the new license file to the CiscoWorks Common Services server into a directory. This directory must have read permissions for the user name casuser or the user group casusers.

Step 3 Install the license file.

•If you have got the RME license before installation, select L for License File after you accept the Licensing Agreement and continue installing RME.

•If you have completed RME installation by entering the PAK and PIN, or if you want to convert an evaluation copy to a licensed copy:

a. From the CiscoWorks Homepage, select Common Services > Server > Admin > Licensing.

The License Administration page appears.

b. Click Update.

A file browser dialog box appears.

c. Enter the path to the new license file in the License field, or click Browse to locate the license file you copied to the server in Step 2.

d. Click OK.

The system verifies whether the license file is valid, and updates the license.

The updated licensing information appears in the License Information page. If you encounter errors, repeat all of the steps.

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Upgrading Your Evaluation License

For an evaluation copy of Resource Manager Essentials 4.0.3, licensing details are not required. Select E for Evaluation copy after you accept the Licensing Agreement to get an evaluation copy of RME 4.0.3.

If you choose to run RME in evaluation mode, RME will not function after 90 days. The evaluation period cannot be extended.

If you have a purchased copy and you decide to install it in evaluation mode, please use your PAK to register the product on the Cisco online licensing site to receive a valid license.

If you have not purchased the product, you can reactivate the CiscoWorks evaluation server by purchasing the product from your authorized Cisco reseller. License the product using the PAK and PIN provided with the product.

For details see, "Registering Your License" section.

Validating Your Upgrade License

Proof of Purchase (POP) is required to validate an upgrade license of RME 4.0.3. If you purchased an upgrade license, at the end of the RME installation, you are prompted to run a CLI script to validate the upgrade license.

This script prompts you to do either of these:

•Insert the original CD containing RME 3.4 or RME 3.5.

•Enter the login information for a remote server where the earlier version of RME is running.

To run the script, see Chapter 3, "Validating Your Upgrade License"

If you do not run the script or if upgrade validation fails, RME is licensed for evaluation only and operates in nag mode for only 90 days. After that period RME stops running. See "Upgrading Your Evaluation License" section.

Licensing Reminders

RME 4.0.5 displays licensing reminders in the following circumstances:

•Evaluation Version—Before Expiry

•Purchased Version—No License File

•Device Limit—Approaching the Actual Limit

•Device Limit—Number of Devices Exceeded

Evaluation Version—Before Expiry

If you have installed the evaluation version of RME, you must obtain the license file from Cisco.com before the evaluation license expires.

During the evaluation period, RME will remind to purchase a licence. The reminder will appear from the first day.

Ten days before the evaluation license expires, you are prompted with a message that the evaluation licence is about to expire. The prompted message is,

This software is provided for evaluation purposes only and will expire in number of days. 
If this is not an evaluation copy, click this link for information about obtaining a valid 
purchase license or click here for current licensing information. Otherwise, please 
contact your Cisco representative for purchasing information.

Where number of days is the total number of days available before the license expire.

If you fail to upgrade your evaluation license, all RME process will run but access to RME functionality will be denied. After license expiry, this message is prompted,

This software is provided for evaluation purposes only and had expired. If this is not an 
evaluation copy, click this link for information about obtaining a valid purchase license 
or click here for current licensing information. Otherwise, please contact your Cisco 
representative for purchasing information.

Purchased Version—No License File

If you have installed a purchased version of RME, you must register RME using the PAK number.

For details see,"Registering Your License" section.

You must register RME within 90 days of installation. If you fail to register RME, a message appears from the first day, prompting you to register it.

RME 4.0.3 is fully functional. However, you will be prompted with a message reminding you to register RME:

This software is provided for evaluation purposes only and will be operational for 90 
days. If this is not an evaluation copy, click this link for information about obtaining a 
valid purchase license or click here for current licensing information. Otherwise, please 
contact your Cisco representative for purchasing information.

Register your license to avoid these messages.

Device Limit—Approaching the Actual Limit

While you add devices to RME, if you are approaching the actual device limit, this message appears:

Total devices approaching the actual limit. Devices selected will be added to RME. Click 
on Pending Devices to verify the progress.

Contact your Cisco representative to determine if additional licenses can be purchased for this server.

Device Limit—Number of Devices Exceeded

While you add devices to RME, you are allowed to exceed the device limit either by 10% of your existing limit or by 100 devices (whichever is less).

For instance, if you have a license for 5000 devices, you are allowed to manage upto 5100 devices only. This is because 10% of 5000 devices is 500 devices which is greater than 100 devices. After reaching this limit (5100), you cannot add another device into RME. When you try to add another device, RME displays a warning message,

Total devices crossed the actual limit. Devices selected will be added to RME.Click on 
Pending Devices to verify the progress.

During migration, if you have RME 3.5, managing 400 devices and have upgraded to RME 4.0.5, but purchased a license for 300 devices, all 400 devices are managed in RME 4.0.5. However, you cannot add a new device or delete and add the device once again to RME.

Similarly, when you run a backup of a Unrestricted licensed server (for example, with 1000 devices) and try to restore the backed-up data on another server with Enterprise Restricted device limit (for example, with 300 devices), all device data is restored.

If you have exceeded the device limit, you will be prompted with a message, reminding you to apply for an additional licence,

This software has a RESTRICTED license for managing a limited number of devices. Click 
here for current licensing information. Please contact your Cisco representative to 
determine if additional licenses can be purchased for this server.