Getting Started with XR Flexible Consumption Model

Good morning everybody from the Americas region. Thank you for taking the time to join us on this expert webinar series. Today we begin the journey of iOS XR expert series with the 1st.00:04Session getting started XR flexible consumption model. Th this is the this this series has four sessions. Today we are covering the 1st session in the series. Once this is complete, the recording will and the presentation decks will be available on the Webex on the on the link I will be sharing all.00:20On the chat window. Our presenters for today are Gopal and Robert for customer success specialists and we invite you to have your questions, you know, either posted on the chat window Q and A panel or you can unmute yourself. If you're not unable to unmute yourself, you can raise your hand and I will unmute.00:40To to to ask your questions. We are trying to keep this session as interactive as possible, so please feel free to raise your questions at any time and we and you know, we'll be happy to address them. So with that, the next nine 90 min of the, of the time.01:00He's with Copal and Robert, please take it away. Thank you Gopal. Thank you, everyone.01:20Hello everybody, good day. Getting started with the XR flexible consumption model, welcome. My name is Gopal and I have Robert with me. We are from customer success team. Robert, you want to say hello?01:26Hey everybody, welcome. In this session, we will try to give you a high level overview of the XR flexible consumption model. Enough for you to get started with it in your network.01:41In today's session, we will cover the following topics. Flexible consumption model, software innovation access overview and entitlement management, a smart licensing, smart account and virtual account overview, and the account setup.01:59And request.02:181st, FCM and SIA overview, iOS XR flexible consumption model. What is it? The flexible consumption model is a new.02:24XR based approach to buying service provider routing products. XRFCM gives the flexibility to manage the capacity in your network. This new approach simplifies the way licenses are managed and consumed network wide in a flexible manner.02:38How does it work? The FCM model allows you to start with a smaller minimum fill rate and then easily expand as the network grows.02:58Capacity is added to a network wide pool under the extra capacity licenses can be used by any device in the network, based on the need. Why should you use it? There are several benefits. 1st, lower upfront costs.03:10Second, network wide license pooling as opposed to per host or per device licensing. And then access to software innovation through software upgrades.03:29Why is it better? FCM includes XR software innovation to keep your network on the cutting edge, you know, with ongoing feature development. So this helps you to provide new revenue by.03:43You know, creating new revenue generating services. The FCM model goes beyond the basic per box level licensing. It allows for a, you know, true network wide pay as you grow model where, you know, and then you can port the licenses from how.04:00Hardware to another hardware within the platform family.04:20Having the network wide view, helps you to keep and have the, you know, visibility of the licenses available versus used and where they are used heavily and so on and so forth. So, network and license vis.04:26Ability also is improved with the FCM.04:43And, you know, let's take a look at a closer look at the benefits. Reduce, upfront capital. So the FCM model offers pay as you grow structure that lowers the initial startup costs. Software subscription provides.04:52Feature upgrades and helps differ the payment of software from the initial purchase. You can start with the low tier.05:12Subscription model and then get the higher tier subscription only when you use the a specific feature that is part of the higher level subscription.05:22Capital utilization is another benefit. You can efficiently share licenses network wide with the license pooling. This solution eliminates the standard capacity as you can use.05:38Any available capacity across the network. You don't keep the licenses in a given location or anything like that. So you have a large pool of licenses that are available for the entire network to access. Simplified operations, there are only two tiers or two suites essential and advantage.05:54And, you know, FCM simplifies the license management while still providing the carrier class iOS XR software feature set, and investment protection.06:14Oh, with this what what happens is that when you retire a old hardware and upgrade to new hardware, you you don't have to decommission your licenses or the software. You can carry the licenses and then apply them on the new hardware.06:30Right, so that is the investment protection. Now let's take a look at the software innovation access subscription model.06:50You know, when it comes to the, you know, what is SIA to begin with? It's a type of FCM licensing and it provides access to the software upgrades. So you can upgrade the routers to the to the higher software releases.07:03The benefits coming to the benefits, access to one is that access to software innovation, so that you can upgrade your routers to the higher software versions, which contain latest features, you know, security enhancements.07:19And bug fixes and whatnot. Next pooling of licenses. SIA subscription enables your right to use licenses to be shared across your network from a common pool of licenses.07:38The investment protection. S a subscription allows portability of perpetual right to use licenses to be used you know from old hardware to the new hardware that you are going to upgrade.07:56The initial term of the SA subscription, there is a term to the SA subscription and the initial term is like three years or 36 months. So in the legacy.08:12We are business as usual licensing. There are some challenges.08:31You need to pre plan your license usage. Take a scenario where there are, you have two locations in San Francisco and New York and you expect them to grow in terms of your bandwidth utilization equally, and then you get few.08:36Putting licenses to each site.08:56In a scenario where San Francisco doesn't grow as much as New York, as much as planned, but the New York grew much more than you expected, you end up having a scenario where San Francisco underutilizes the licenses where you need to get new licenses for the new.09:01Let's see how the software innovation access or the flexible licensing model addresses this problem. With the flexible consumption model, what happens is the.09:23Licenses are pooled and aren't kept in a centrally central location, which is accessible to the devices so the network wide license pooling removes the guesswork out of the forecasting.09:38And the licenses can be shared anywhere in the network, and redeploy them where the demand is high. With this, the capacity planning is simplified and you can efficiently use the licensing based on the actual need.09:54Right, in this case of for San Francisco and New York, the devices can access the licenses from the common pool and use as needed. Alright, now let us look at the.10:12Pay as you grow capacity. In this example, we are taking NCS 5500 router and with the multiple ports, it has, 04:10 gig.10:32Ports, and then 100 gig port and then 02:40 gig ports. Let let me talk about the approach and then we will see how this approach applies to this example.10:48Node capacity is checked and rounded to the nearest either ten gig or hundred gig depending on the platform. For the 5500 platform, it is rounded to the nearest hundred gig.11:10Right, in this example, we will check, check the essential software licenses needed based on the physical port capacity being used. The ports that are shut down are not counted for the capacity.11:26So use of the 1st hundred gig is always rounded up to hundred gig. Thereafter, the bandwidth is rounded to the nearest hundred gig. In this example.11:45There is a usage of 200 2220 gig. Am I counting right? Yeah, so 4140 plus 8220 gig. The nearest hundred gig, for the 220 gig is 20 gig, 200 gig. So in this example.11:59To the.12:18The licenses are rounded to 200 gig, and then 200 gig is counted for the licensing purpose I just want to take a pause and just check with Robert.12:21To do you, are there any questions?12:41There are currently NO questions in the chat and guys feel free to unmute yourself if you're able to, if you're not raise your hand and we'll get you unmuted to ask any questions or shoot them in the chat. We're, we're here to help. Let's look at the FC FCM.12:45Offer structure. We have three key highlights of the offer. 1st, FCM is disaggregated the hardware price from the software price. Hardware list price reflects the instring intrinsic value of the hardware alone.13:05Second licensing is simplified simplified to two suites. This is essential and the advantage. They do have a common skew number, so.13:23The SKU number is specific to the product family. So both the essential and advantage can be used across the platform family. 3rd, FCM software is deconstructed to perpetual and software innovation access.13:37Right, so the software right to use licenses represent the initial value provided by the software. SIA gives two benefits. One, the right to use license pool.13:58You know, can be shared across the network. Second, SIA allows you to continuous innovation through software upgrades.14:17So FCM right to use licenses. As I was telling, there are two suites. Essential suite and advantage suite. Essential suite is for all the active ports. The shutdown ports are not counted for, in the license accounting.14:31The advantage suite is for the advanced software features such as L two VPN and L three VPN and so on. The essentials.14:51Software suite is for basic transport applications while the advantage software suite is for enhanced applications and network resiliency. The the advantage software suite includes all the features in the essential software suite, and in addition to that.15:07The features in the advanced, it gives additional, it allows for using of additional features that are in the advanced pool. The essential software suite is required for active ports in the system. As I was just want to repeat shutdown ports are not count.15:27For the use of essential licensing.15:48On top of the Essentials software suite, you may also require advantage software suite when you use any one of the features that are in the advanced feature set.15:53The, The software features in the advanced feature feature set include MPLS L three VPN, L two VPN traffic engineering, macsec or service layer application programming interface API.16:08Right, so that's about the, the software SIA feature set, the essentials and the advanced advantage feature set. So the supported platforms.16:31FCM is available on the following platforms like the Cisco 8000 series, Cisco ASR 9000 series with the 3rd 4th and 5th generation line cards, NCS 5500 core and aggregation platforms and NCS five.16:4745 60 access platforms. SIA licenses, product IDs for each of these platform families are different. So the SIA licenses are transferable within the platform family.17:06Alright, with that let's get into the SIA entitlement management the SIA licenses SIA license grants you access to the latest.17:27Software upgrades which contain the new features bug fixes and security enhancement.17:46Also it enables the consumption of advantage licenses on your devices. And it tells you the portability and license pooling. Just I was telling in the earlier a few minutes ago.17:53So SIA management entitlement management, how SIA enforce or check the entitlement. So in brief SIA entitlement entitles the devices to perform software upgrades.18:12And use of a feature set that are in the advanced features. 1st, you must have active SIS subscriptions covering all the features configured.18:31On the device. Then you must also that the device must also register with the licensing server and then stay in sync with the licensing server. There is a grace period of 90 days.18:46That even if it is out of complaints within the grace period, the entitlement meant.19:06Will still is considered to be entitled. Let's look at the platforms. So ASR nine K maybe repetition NCS 5500 Cisco 8000 NCS 54.19:14Five 45 60 platforms and even the white box platforms running iOS XR are covered.19:34Under SIA entitlement management. However, these are covered only with some let me qualify that. Only the, when they are running iOS XR 731 and beyond.19:44Right, and then certain platforms specifically ASR nine K and the NCS 5500 they there is an option for them to use either a flexible consumption model or the legacy licensing model.20:01Only when the these two platforms ASR K and NCS 5500, when they're operating in flexible consumption model, only then the SIA entitlement applies to those platforms.20:18All right, I think I make that clear. The the platforms such as Cisco 8000 NCS 05:40 are five 60 and the white labeled boxes, when they run iOS XR 731.20:35Entitlement management applies to them, right? So the entitlement, the decision making works as follows are the, yeah.20:53So SIA out of complaints may happen in two situations. When the number of SIA subscriptions in use is more than the number of purchased SIA subscriptions in your virtual account.21:09There's 2nd situation is when the license, when the device is not in sync with the licensing server for more than 90 days. In these two situations, the device is considered out of complaints.21:26The device is in complaints when the number of SIA subscriptions used is equal to or less than the purchased or owned SIA licenses.21:45And the device is in sync with the licensing server within the last 90 days, right? So there is this grace period of 90 days that I was talking about.22:012nd thing about, the device upgrade, the entitlement entitlement management only applies to software upgrades and it does not apply to software updates.22:15Let's look at the difference between software upgrade and update. When, the software change from the current to the future is within the major version.22:35It is considered software update and entitlement management doesn't apply here. When the software that you are changing from current version to the new version and the new version is of a different.22:52Our higher major version than it is considered a software upgrade. That is when the flexible consumption model will verify the entitlement. In this example, when you move from software version.23:07Upgrade from seven.X to eight.Why? Then that is considered a major software upgrade, right? SI entitlement also does not apply or restrict software downgrade.23:26When you downgrade from eight to seven.23:45The entitlement management does not even look at it. So the enforcement does not apply there. Okay, with that clarified, let us look at the license types.23:49And how these licenses are moved to your account. When you get, when you buy the licenses, there are three types of license. There are two tiers like I was talking about, the essential.24:09Under the advanced advantage licenses. However, when you purchase the licenses, there are three types. The license this is only for the purchase point of view. So when you.24:26By the ESS licenses, it's straightforward. You get the essential license, essential tier, and when you get the ADN licenses with ADN prefix, the advantage licenses you get essentials.24:43Plus advantage licenses. In the case where you only got the essential licenses and you want to upgrade, what you need to do is you need to get advantage li licenses without the essential. It's, it's obvious, right? You don't want to.25:01Duplicate or double purchase the essential licenses. Something to remember, right? When you already have an essential license, you you get the advantage license without the essentials in it.25:21So you only get the advantage part of it. So you may find in your pool of licenses some with ADN keyword and some with AD ADV key keyword, but nothing that you need to worry about the.25:37The software license manager understands this and it operates automatically. So entitlement, you know, we also need to know what entitlement management is not.25:55Right. So the SI entitlement management controls access to the software upgrade upgrades, but does not limit or restrict the functionality on the router as it is running currently.26:13Right, so if you have only essentials and if you are using, say, features that are within the advanced feature set, it won't stop you from using it.26:32Right, it will only tell you that, hey, your router is out of complaints. It will remind you that the router is out of compliance. 2nd item is that it will not restrict access to the smooths, the software, software.26:47Maintenance upgrades.27:07Updates, right? So when you are going from 73X to 73y e.g., the entitlement does not come into picture. Also software entitlement management does not apply to traditional business as usual licenses.27:09On ASR nine K and NCS 5500.27:29Right? And then it also does not apply when you downgrade, right? So that is something to note.27:35Let's look at the workflow of the entitlement management. What happens is when you purchase the licenses from the Cisco commerce work workplace or workspace in cisco.com, the moment you purchase, the licenses will show up in your.27:52The account, right? So you can view them in in your account right away, right? So you, you go to software.cisco.com and you you can say manage licenses and you can look at the licenses there.28:10Then you need to activate your device with an authentication token so that it can inter interface with the licensing server. So the once you activate the devices with the authentication token, the devices will now register with.28:28With the licensing server also called Cisco software, smart software, software smart manager, something like that, the smart software, Cisco smart software manager, sorry.28:48Once they are in sync with the licensing server or the CSSM, the devices will report the license consumption, you know, what features are used, how much bandwidth is used on the device.29:04The licensing server or the CSSM will have your purchased or owned licenses and the licenses used by the devices, right? So that is the.29:20A workflow, and this is how the software entitlement management knows what is owned versus what is used on per device basis as well as the entire network basis.29:37With all that, before we conclude the entitlement management, I just want to take an example case and see where the entitlement management.29:58Allows you to upgrade a software, a major upgrade and won't allow, right? So we have three scenarios. In the 1st scenario router is registered and reporting its usage to the.30:13Software Cisco Smart software manager and the licenses are in complaints, right? So in this case it's straightforward. The upgrade is possible. The upgrade will go through just fine.30:31In 2nd scenario, the, the licenses are the SIA licenses are out of complaints or the router is not registered with the.30:49Licensing server and it's been more than 90 days since it synced with the licensing server. In this case, NO NO, in this case, let us say that it's within the grace period, right? It's within the grace period.31:05In this case, the SIA is out of complaints, but because it's within the grace period, you can still upgrade the router, right? In the 3rd case where, the router is out of complaints.31:19Because either it, it is using more licenses than the owned licenses are available licenses by your company or you did not sync with the licensing server for more than 90 days. All right? It's the grace period is.31:35Expired. So in this case, the software upgrade is not possible, right? It will be denied. I I just want to remind you it's software upgrade, not the smooth updates or the software update within the same.31:54A major release. However, the software upgrade where the major release is different or higher, that will be denied. It, the upgrade will not be possible. Alright, with that, let us look at the smart licensing.32:10What with you.32:30So, smart licensing is a software licensing management system, right? It simplifies the way you procure, deploy, manage your Cisco software licenses across your company. It is, it acts as a back.32:33Own infrastructure to maintain your software licenses. It's like a bank account, where it has, it, it holds your the licenses that you own.32:53And it also keeps track of the licenses that you consume, right? So in the past, we used, you know, product, some keys, right? Authentication key or something like that.33:10And there they are limited to a specific device, right? So and these require installation per device. And it's it's not programmable. It's hard to program those installations. With smart licensing, you can pull all the licenses and use them.33:29Across all the devices in your network. You have complete visibility on the license availability and the usage. And license licenses can be transferred across the devices and also can be ported from a hardware.33:49That you are planning to retire to a new hardware that you are going to procure or purchase, right? So with the smart licensing, you know, license pooling will help you with you know capacity planning, right? So you don't have to actually.34:08Keep the licensing part of your plan. You just buy the licenses, keep it in the.34:28And the license portability helps you with investment protection. Even though you retire a hardware, you don't, you carry the license with you. And then the licenses are unlocked, they are locked to a, not locked to a device.34:34Right, so this these are the advantages. Some differences between the classic licenses and the smart licenses. So basically it's an effort to simplify the licensing consumption.34:53For the customers, right? And the smart licensing is at the heart of this simplification, right? So it offers streamlined purchasing, activation and management of the licenses. So with classic licenses, you have limited view.35:13There is NO easy or flexible way to view the entire network. Some, some licenses are actually, you know, the files you need to keep and if you lose the files, it is hot you need to contact Cisco again and they are.35:32Logged to the devices. Smart licenses, on the other hand, you get a complete view of the entire network through software management and graphical user interface. The registration is easy.35:53You configure the router and up upload the authentication token, which can be automated as well, totally programmable, and then the license distribution is automatic from there on. It's a protocol that the device talks with the.36:10Software license server. Licenses are company specific, not device specific, not department specific. So you can they right you can transfer across the companies. Also you, they are more granular, you have ten gig.36:29License you, you know, the, the licenses of the bandwidth can be pulled and used, you know, as per the need of the given device. And the licenses are unlocked, not tied to a given hardware. Another important thing.36:49You can go over on license count with smart licenses and the router or the devices still functions, right? Only challenge is that the entitlement will stop you from upgrading to a higher major release.37:07Now the licensing system. Licenses are deposited in the customer smart account in a common repository. Once you purchase it from the common cisco.com, the licenses immediately appear in your.37:31Your account.37:48And there is a call home configuration that you need to do, which comes with the, you know, the default configuration. Only thing is that you need to activate using the authentication token, right? When you do that, for, devices that have the.37:51Oh.38:11Internet access, they can directly access the cisco's licensing server without any explicit configuration. The call home configuration is default there in your router. In cases where routers don't have internet access or where you don't want to send.38:11So.38:31Establish direct connectivity between the device and the Cisco licensing server. You can have a on prem server where the devices will, interface with the on prem server and the on prem server is the one which will interact with the.38:33Cisco's Cloud license server. The licensing, you know, the Cisco smart software manager.38:52Are the license server or whatever I was referring to, everything is, is accessed through one single pane of glass portal that is software.cisco.com. Once you go there, you go to manage licenses and all your information is there.39:08Pertaining to your company, in one place there. Now let's take a look at how we can manage this user access and how we access this and so on and so forth.39:28Smart accounts, enable you need to have smart accounts, right? So once you own the licenses, you know, prior to licenses warning, you, the system will force you to have a s a smart account.39:47Right, so you create the account creation is easy. You need to be the authorized user for your company to be able to create the smart account, right? So.40:06Smart account serves as a single place for you to manage all your software license inventory in a centralized, transparent and and a secure way, right? Because software licenses are assigned to the smart account and not to the individual employee, there is NO chance of.40:22Smart licenses being misplaced or lost if the employee moves to a different group within your company or moves, leaves your company, right? And lastly, automated notifications along with full visibility into usage, provide better insights to be informed purchasing and renewal.40:41Our decisions. So you can set up, notification policies and the system will notify you in addition to you can on demand come to the portal and look at the usage as well.41:01Smart account types. So there are two types of smart accounts. One is the customer account and the other one is a partner or a holding account. Customer account is for the consumption by the customer. If you are the direct customer, that is what.41:18That you you should have. Partner account on the other hand is for the partners where they need to hold the licenses for some time until they finally hand it over to the customer.41:38Right, who is the final consumer of the licenses, right? So, once the customer is identified, you should, the partner will transfer the licenses to the customer account.41:55So the key distinguisher between the two is that the licenses can only be consumed by the customer's mart account, but not by the partner or the holding account. Okay, and once you have the.42:13The account, what are the different accounting roles?42:33This is somewhat self explanatory. The smart account approver basically responsible for approving the smart licensing agreement terms of the service. Smart account admin creates and manages.42:37A Smart account as well as virtual accounts.42:57And he provides the smart admin provides user to the access to the users, different access levels. Smart account user, manages the licenses within the smart account or the virtual account.43:00But you know smart account user does not have the ability to manage users or delete accounts. Virtual account admin and virtual account users are for the virtual accounts which we'll be talking about in the coming.43:21Next few minutes. But the admin is the one who creates users and provides access and privileges to the virtual account users.43:37And virtual account user is the one who manages licenses within the virtual account. How to get a smart account? Basically.43:53You you need to be the on your behalf on the customer behalf, you can get the smart account. You need to have a an active Cisco, cisco.com ID that belongs to.44:09It mapped to your customer, right? And you should be the person authorized to activate a smart account on your company's behalf. For the partners who are, who manages the partner holding account, the steps are the same except that you will select.44:27Request a partner holding account instead of.44:47Customer smart account, right? If your if your customer already has a smart account and if you're a partner waiting to access or wanting to access the customer smart account, you go to software.cisco.com and select request access.44:50To a requesting a smart account. With that you have limited.45:10I access privileges such as transferring the licenses to the smart account and so on. Okay, let's look at the virtual accounts. So we talked about the smart account. One thing that I want to highlight here is that.45:16Please note that the the licenses I was talking about transferable across the network, portable across the hardware, all of this.45:36Is true when within the within one smart account. So typically for a company it is better to have just one smart account, though it is possible to create multiple smart accounts. There maybe some special scenarios where you want to have multiple smart accounts for a company.45:50But in a typical case.46:09You can't it's better to have one smart account because of the easy transferability. If you happen to create multiple smart accounts, it is still possible to transfer, but then you need to open a case with Cisco and they are going to do the transfer for you.46:13Virtual accounts, are almost like sub accounts under, a smart account, right? So once you have the smart account, you have the flexibility to create sub accounts.46:34Virtual accounts help organize and manage your assets by different groupings, right? So you can.46:53Group or create several buckets of virtual accounts. You can group them by things like demographics like department or by product or by geography or any other designation or the product function, you know, you could, e.g., you.47:01You can have a core, all core routers in one virtual account or edge routers in other accounts or even edge routers support hosting L three VPNs in one virtual account and edge routers hosting L two VPNs in another virtual accounts.47:20Smart accounts have role based user access controls which allow delegation of authority to account administrators at the smart account level or at the.47:42Virtual account level. Alright, so virtual accounts can also be nested. So you can have, you can have a top tier of virtual accounts and within each tier you can have.47:55Hierarchy of virtual accounts. One example, I was talking about the edge virtual account and under the edge you can have L three VPN L two VPN.48:11Direct internet access, that type of nest nesting you can do. How to create a virtual account very intuitive and straightforward. To create a virtual access a virtual account, access the.48:28Cisco software central, go to manage smart account and select the virtual accounts.48:47Under the virtual accounts tab, you can create a new virtual account and assign user roles to it. And the users are typically users that have the CCO IDs, right? Their own cco IDs, and you, you got to know the cco IDs of the team members that you are assigning the, a given virtual.48:53Account. This is some examples. Again, the virtual accounts are company specific, how you organize them also is company specific, specific, most likely.49:14The obvious organization would be how your company is organized, how the teams are organized within your company. You can, you know, in the, in this example where, the virtual accounts structure is by geography, you can have smart account, one smart account.49:31And then have multiple virtual accounts by geography, not one account for North America, EMEA, Asia pack, and within North America you can have east coast, west coast or by state or whatever, right? By you can also have another possible structure is by division.49:51You can have, metro, mobility and managed services, different virtual accounts based on the network and then the services offered by the network and e.g. within the mobility core aggregation and so on.50:12Yeah th this is something that you need to think about a little bit before configuring. We you can always come back and the structure to change the structure it's fairly easy, so you can also change it later, but it helps to put some.50:33I'm thinking.50:52Some smart account best practices, create virtual accounts to organize your assets by, you know, whatever demographic groups that typically align with the structure of your.50:58Organizational management, right? Avoid creating multiple customer smart accounts because of the transferring, right? The transferring of licenses are within a customer segment account.51:14Next, while ordering, always select customer smart account or you know partner holding account appropriately, also assign a specific.51:30Virtual account, right? If you do not assign licenses to your virtual account, they will be assigned to a default virtual account and later on you can assign them at a later time as needed.51:45Assign the order of, order to a customer smart account instead of a partner holding account to avoid any delays if the customer's smart account is readily available, right? With that, I conclude the present.52:01Presentation part of the the of the session. I would like to see wait, and pause if you have any questions and then after that I would want to hand over to my colleague, Robert for a demo.52:20All right, awesome job, Gopal. Any questions before we get started with the demo? Anybody wanna raise their hand and come off mute? Alright, looks like there's NO questions, so I'll go ahead and share my screen.52:43Alright everyone, so to get started with the demo, let's 1st go to software central. So this is your CSSM. This is where all your license portal stuff will happen. So at the top here, 1st thing you want to check, you guys, this is where.53:08Your smart license, like this is the smart license account that I'm in, so I have CS demo labs. If I click here, if I had multiple, I could go down here and look for, you know, however many different were assigned to me or that I had access to. I'm gonna stay in the CS demo labs for this one.53:25When managing an account, we're gonna bypass this 1st portion, come down here, and you can check out your smart license. So if you don't have a smart licenses, you can go ahead and create a smart license with this create an account. To manage a smart account or create virtual accounts, we're gonna go into manage account.53:41To do any licenses expect like check on your license or transfer license, we'll use the managed license, so I'll go there next. Under a managed account is where we're gonna be able to add users, additional virtual accounts.54:01So click on virtual cloud, click on user virtual account. You could build your virtual account. It's pretty straightforward. You can add in additional users here, give them, you know, all the different roles smart account user approver, and so on, you've got notifications and requests. You also have event lock.54:15Now let's get into the interesting part, the actual managing the license. So when managing licenses, you're gonna move in here. Remember, I was doing my CSS CS demo labs smart account. This 1st main page alerts. This alert is across your entire virtual or entire smart account.54:35It's not your virtual accounts, but all of them. You can see I've got my major or minor and there's actually, if you have any informational alerts, they will show up here in blue. You can do, you can click on any of these hyperlinks and it'll take you to the, you know, the issue.54:53You can do actions, so this one is we have insufficient license. We go ahead and transfer license right here. We've got inventory, convert smart licenses reports, preferences, on prem accounts, activity, commercial consumption. If you are the administrator of this smart account or virtual account, one thing I do suggest is we.55:07Moving to your preference tab, and then come in through here and anything that you have.55:27Access to or you need to monitor, I would add those virtual accounts here or you can just do all of them and you'll basically be able to come here and set in different preferences to get email alerts and notifications if anything's happening. So you could check out each one of these product registration token enabled, disabled, you come down here, I'm currently.55:33Receiving an email over these two virtual accounts every time licenses are expiring within 90 days, product instances failed to connect. So it's a great way for me to just.55:53Watch and see if anything's happening across this account without me having to actually log in. The next thing we want to do is reports. If you're looking for any kind of reports that are going to be right here. So these will be the licenses consumed, used, and deposited. Product instances, product instances are only going.56:04Wanted to show you products that have actually successfully registered and you could click on each one of these.56:23You know, change the report name, description, virtual accounts, all select individual virtual accounts, all license or just select any. I always just do all export XML and then I filter using, you know, Excel spreadsheets. But there's tons of different ways you can do this.56:29To start working and getting licenses moved around and devices attached, we're gonna move to this inventory tab here. With the inventory tab, the 1st thing it's gonna do is bring you to, you know, your 1st virtual account. This is not the virtual account that I want to work in today. So I'm gonna go ahead and switch this.56:46Search it. I'm gonna move into FCM demo. With FCM demo, this 1st page here with all virtual accounts, this is my product registration area, so this is where I can create my tokens. I already have a token created here. You can see that it's going to expire in 30 days.57:07And come over here copy, download or revoke this token. Now your token is the way that you associate an individual router or product with a virtual account. So if I use a different a token from a different virtual account, I will actually tell this router to try and pull license from that virtual account, not the.57:22The one I'm currently in. So it's important to make sure that you're using the right token.57:42For the tokens, if you need to build a new token, you just click on new token, you can put in a description, you expire after 30 days or you can expire after, what was that? 365 days expiration, you can set a max number of uses, so I can say I only want to use this ten times.57:48Maybe I've got like a project that we're building and I know there's only gonna be ten routers so I only want to use this ten times, make sure nobody else gets access to this. From there, once you get your token, that can just sit there for right now. We'll go to licenses. This is where we'll see all of our licenses.58:07Now you can see right off the bat I've got four major 47 minor. You can see some of these errors that I'm having, insufficient licenses, license expiring, so I would need to get more licenses, insufficient licenses. If I need to move licenses back and forth, I can just click on this. This one's got 39. When I click here.58:25You can see this becomes available, available actions. Transfer, add tags or remove tags.58:46If I click on transfer, this is grayed out, this will stay grayed out until we actually select a new virtual account. It's NO longer grayed out and I can put in how many licenses I would like to transfer. Once I hit transfer, they will move from FCM demo.58:52To this virtual account here, product instances is gonna show us the currently registered products, ok? And if there's any errors, see we have a few of these are failing to renew, failed to connect license reservation. So you've got a bunch of different things along with your event log.59:08Okay, let's go ahead and register a device. So, and move back here, go back to general. All right, so as you can see I've got an A one oh one over here. So show version. I am running 17.59:29N two which is an SCM version because remember it SCM became came in at 731. So version's correct.59:47What else do we need to check? Let's see our call home show, well before we do that, let's do a show license summary. So as soon as you connect these devices up, they're gonna run into that grace period. So your 90 grade 90 day grace period where the evaluation starts. As you can see, this router is all.59:57Already reporting what licenses it needs, but because it's unregistered.01:00:16It's not being fulfilled, so we know what we need, but we just don't have a connection to a virtual account or a smart account to pull in this information or borrow from that pool. So to get something connected, there's a couple things we need to check off the bat. So.01:00:22Let's see our call home. Our call home, is our basically how we know where to go to. So it's like our, our pointing device.01:00:40So this is what you will see by default. What you're looking for here is HTTPS tools.cisco.com. That is this server that Cisco hosts. This is what's gonna come default on there, you're saying you'll have a Cisco TAC profile, you will have this, all is default, you need to make sure that everything's active.01:00:59If for some reason you're going to use an on prem, this will need to be changed. This address will be changed to with whatever your on prem address is, which you can get out of the general tab of your on prem. And we'll show that in another series. But checking that.01:01:18Now let's do show run call home. The reason I'm doing the show run call home because there are some changes you need to make if you're running vrfs. I'm running the VRF here called kilo management, so I need under my call home, I have to make sure that the VRF kilo management and the source interface are set up.01:01:35If not, I will not be able to reach out to this server. I know this pretty general.01:01:54Networking there, but just want to make sure that everybody remembers to check them. Once those three things are checked, we can go ahead and start connecting and adding our licenses. So the way we're gonna do this, we're gonna use smart. Excuse me license smart.01:02:01Register ID token. Now I'm going to put in the token. So let me come back over here. Actions copy.01:02:21Enter. Now, it says ID token completed successfully, but we want to double check this to make sure that it is and it is, you can see that I am now registered. I am registered to CS demo lab.01:02:36Smart account and the virtual account that I'm actually pulling the license from is the SEM demo. Now, we're currently out of compliance. We're out of compliance because it was unable to pull the correct licenses, which means that I probably do not have the correct licenses in here for this. Let's just see if it was a error, so let's do a.01:02:55License, smart renew. I'll kind of reset it here, give us a few minutes, show license summary. All right.01:03:16And while you're testing these things, there's a couple things you can do. Your reporting by default is gonna be every 60 min and where your collections are gonna be 60 min and your reporting is gonna be every hundred and 40 min. So if you're ever gonna test something like this, you wanna wanna use this test license platform interval collections one reporting one. So I just.01:03:33Just want to drop the time down.01:03:53And see if we can get this to pull a license now, but it may not have any license in here Looks like I do not have any license cause this one, ok. So this 1st license is not gonna be in there. We know that this is out of compliance and this.01:03:55Because here we are. We're.01:04:16You know, negative one here for this hardware tracking. And it looks like we're out of the essentials RTU two, which is why it's not pulling. Yep, there it is. So we just went negative nine on this one. But we did pull the SIA. So the SIA was pulled.01:04:18Looks like it was probably pool right here sia. Here's the SIA one. To fix this, we could move to another virtual account transfer the license over, and then it would automatically consume because it is collecting a reporting mount at every.01:04:38Minute. So that is how you set up and connect your devices. Any questions on, on this so far? Is there anything else you guys would like to see any burning questions over at FCM?01:04:57Okay, the only other thing that I'd like to show you is now that this is connected, we would actually be able to come over here to product instances and pull reports and see information on it. So this is 81 oh C and you can now see that I have an 801C over here, last contact. Let's this back.01:05:19Like oh.01:05:35Okay, that is part of the 800 series, here's the PID, that's contact, current license usage, authorized one required one required one, not currently any current licenses, it would also add up in our reports now, could be part of our.01:05:36Net log, we'll see it there. If you're NO longer going to use this device and you want to disconnect it or move it to a different virtual account, it's easy enough to do. License smart is it.01:05:56Deregister and you can see that we are NO longer part of any smart account. Alright, so that's gonna conclude the demo part.01:06:16What questions do you guys have? Have you run into any errors on this before? Have you used it at all? Alright, looks like we got some stuff coming in on the chat maybe. Nope. Alright, well if there's NO questions, I want to thank all of you guys for joining and feel free.01:06:34To join the next session or try and get in touch with the student emails that you may have. Yes, thank you Robert. Thank you Gopal for your presentation today. Appreciate everybody's time today. This is the 1st session in the series. Our next session is scheduled next Wednesday. Eleven a. M. 11:00 A.M. Eastern time. See you all next week. Good.01:06:54And thank you. Appreciate it.01:07:14