Cisco Prime Network Registrar requires separate license for CCM, Authoritative DNS, Caching DNS, and DHCP services or for combinations of these services.
Cisco Prime Network Registrar 10.0 license file contains two sets of licenses which cover the permanent and subscription parts
of the license. You must purchase subscription license for future upgrades. The initial subscription is always three years
and one year extension for renewals. For more details on the Licensing, see the “License Files” section in the Overview chapter
of the Cisco Prime Network Registrar 10.0 Installation Guide.
See Logging In to the Web UI for entering license data the first time you try to log in. You can add the additional service based licenses in the regional
server after you log in.
You should not delete any of the individual licenses loaded from the file. You may delete older version DNS and DHCP licenses
after upgrade. Older version CDNS licenses must be retained if the servers are not upgraded.
Whenever you log into a regional or local cluster, the overall licensing status of the system is checked. If there is no
valid system license, the login will be rejected. If there are any violations, you will be notified of the violation and the
details. This notification is done only once for each user session. In addition, you will be able to see a message on each
page indicating the violation.
Regional Web UI
Choose Licenses from Administration
>
User
Access to open the List/Add Product Licenses page. Click Browse to locate the license file, click the file, then click Open . If the license ID in the file is valid, the license key appears in the list of licenses with the message “Successfully added
license file “filename.” If the ID is not valid, the License field shows the contents of the file and the message “Object is invalid” appears.
The License Utilization section at the top of the page lists the type of license, the number of nodes allowed for the license,
and the actual number of nodes used. Expand the section by clicking the plus (+ ) sign. The license utilization for each licensed service is listed separately in this section.
The Right To Use and the In Use counts are displayed for each licensed service. The Right To Use value will be the aggregation
of the counts across all added licenses for that service. The ‘total in use’ value will be the aggregation of the latest utilization
numbers obtained from all the local clusters. Only the services having a positive Right to use or In Use count will be listed
in this section. If the In Use count exceeds the Right To Use count, the "License exceed count" error message appears.
Licenses and usage count of earlier versions of Cisco Network Registrar will be listed under a separate section “ip-node”.
The Expert mode attribute lets you specify how often license utilization is collected from all the local clusters. Changes to this setting
require a server restart to take effect. You can set this attribute at the Edit CCM Server page. The default value is 4 hours.