Create a Smart Account

The first step to enabling smart software licensing is to create a Smart Account with Cisco, unless your organization has already established one.

To start the Smart Software licensing process:

1. Click Smart Software Manager in the text. The Cisco Software Central window appears.

2. Click Get a Smart Account. Follow the instructions.

This does not register your Cisco Vision Director deployment with Cisco Smart Software Licensing. Cisco Vision Director will be in Evaluation Mode until you register the product with the Smart Software Licensing application.

Register Cisco Vision Director Products with Smart Licensing Software

To register your license with Smart Software Licensing:

1. After you complete enabling a Smart Account, go back the Cisco Vision Director, click More > Manage Software > Licensing and click Smart Software Licensing link in blue text. The Smart Software Licensing screen appears.

2. Log in to your account.

3. In the General tab, click New Token. The Create New Token dialog box appears.

4. Fill in all the fields and click Create Token. Max. Number of Uses defines how many times this token can be use for registering Cisco Vision Director.

5. A confirmation green check box flashes. You see the new token information listed in the table.

6. In the Actions drop-down arrow, click Copy or Download to get the token information.

7. In the Cisco Vision Director UI, click Register. The Smart Software Licensing Product Registration box appears.

8. Paste the token information from the Smart Licensing server in the black box and click Register.

Use the checkbox if the product is already registered.

Wait a few moments for the software to register and refresh the screen.

You see three lines appear: one for CV Director, one for the Displays (DMPs), and one for Language Packs (Figure 1)—all granted for one purchased Director license. When you register Cisco Vision Director (the parent purchase), the number of licenses purchased against the parent, meaning the Displays (DMPs) and Languages, versus the actual usage of the parent (Director, usually 1), the total number of DMPs and language pack s are compared. For example, if the licenses purchased for Displays (DMPs) is 500 and you use 250, the status of the License is Authorized. Conversely, if you specify 500 and you use 750 DMPs, then the status of your license is Out of Compliance.

Note: Once you register your Director license, the corresponding number of DMPs you are using will be authorized. It may take up to an hour to show that your licenses are authorized. In the meantime, you may see a Non-Compliant orange caution symbol. Later, when more Director / Devices / Language Packs are added to the parent license, the count updates every and the usage will be reported to the Licensing Smart Account Server.

Note: After an upgrade, Cisco Vision Director remains in Unregistered—Evaluation mode for 90 days. After 90 days, the Evaluation period expires.

Reserve Cisco Vision Director Products with Smart Software Licensing

When you use Cisco Vision Director without registering and requesting a license, you run in Evaluation Mode. You see the orange caution symbol at the top of your screen reminding you to register your license, no matter which interface you use. Click on the Unregistered link and a pop-up displays (Figure 4).

Figure 4 Registration Information

Likewise, click on the Evaluation link for more information.

To reserve a license and use that license when it is registered:

1. Click start here. The Smart Software License Reservation box appears.

2. Click Confirm. The box changes to allow you to Generate a license token.

3. Click Generate. The License Reservation Request Code box appears with the code string.

4. Click Copy to Clipboard or Save to File.

5. Use the generated Reservation Request Code and generate an Authorization Code from the Licensing Server.

After generating the Reservation Request Code, the status changes.

6. Enter the Authorization Code: The Authorization Code generated from the Licensing Server has to be entered here and the reservation process continues.

Figure 5 shows a successful registration.

Figure 5 License Status Successfully Registered

If, for any reason you canceled the process before the code was visible in the registration box, you can recover it.

To view the request code:

In the Registration zone, click View Request Code (Figure 6).

Figure 6 View Request Code

You can purchase more than one Cisco Vision Director license and choose to deploy them however you want, even in one venue.

Note: You must also register your secondary server—in case of a fail-over.

To update your reservation:

1. Access the Smart Licensing server and generate the Authorization Code, like above.

2. Enter the Authorization Code in the pop-up.

After updating, Cisco Vision Director provides confirmation code.

3. Enter the code in the Licensing Server window and click the “Code is Entered” to acknowledge the update in the Licensing Server.

Transport Settings

The transport settings interface controls how you link from the cloud Smart Software Manager to Cisco Vision Director. There are three options available:

■Direct—whereby the product communicates directly with Cisco’s licensing server.

■Transport Gateway—the gateway or satellite must have access to the internet. Select this and enter the URL of the Transport Gateway or Cisco Smart Software Licensing satellite used to communicate with the Cisco Smart Licensing server.

■HTTP/HTTPS Proxy— Select this and enter the URL and port number for the HTTP or HTTPS proxy server used to communicate with the Cisco Smart Licensing server.

To access transport settings:

1. Click edit Transport Settings. The Transport Setting box appears (Figure 7).

Figure 7 Transport Settings

Note: If you select anything but Direct, you must provide the URL, IP Address and Port information. We recommend using the Direct option.

2. Select the communication method.

3. Click Save.