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Link your Intersight Account to Smart License Account

Connect your Intersight and Smart License accounts to unify asset management, ensure license compliance, and gain visibility to optimize your software spend.

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Linking Your Intersight Account to a Smart License Account

To use Cisco Intersight, you must link your Intersight account to a Cisco Smart License account [1]. Intersight uses Cisco Smart Licensing to manage and enforce license entitlements across the platform. This connection ensures that the appropriate license tiers are recognized and applied to your managed devices and features.

Intersight offers two license tiers - including Intersight Essentials and Intersight Advantage [1]. The license tier applied to a device determines which Intersight features are available for that device. Linking to a Smart License account allows Intersight to validate and consume the correct entitlements from your Cisco Smart Software Manager (CSSM) account.

To link your Intersight account to your Smart License account, follow these steps [1]:

  1. Log in to your Cisco Intersight account.
  2. Navigate to the System area of the Intersight portal.
  3. Select Licensing to access the licensing configuration options.
  4. Confirm the link is established so that license entitlements can be properly recognized and enforced.

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  1. Cisco Intersight Help Center
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