Generic smart licensing | Smart Licensing | Configuration Guide for Cisco NCS 1004, IOS XR Release 25.x.x

Describes the generic smart license that you can use across the 2-QDD-C card, 1.2T card, and OTN-XP card with any client data rate, with or without encryption, and lists the supported software entitlements.

This reference enables you to identify the generic smart license entitlements that span multiple Cisco NCS 1004 cards and verify the license usage with sample show command outputs.

Generic Smart Licensing feature allows you to purchase licenses that can be used on 2-QDD-C card, 1.2T card, and OTN XP card with any client data rate with or without encryption. This feature further simplifies license procurement and management of licensing.

Table 1. Feature History
Feature Name	Release Information	Feature Description
Generic Smart License	Cisco IOS XR Release 7.10.1	Smart licensing functionality is enhanced to enable you to use one common license across cards and functionalities. Hence, a single license will provide entitlement to use 2-QDD-C card, 1.2T card, and OTN XP card, with encryption enabled or disabled, and for different client data rates. This feature reduces license procurement and management effort.

Generic Smart Licensing Software Entitlements of Cisco NCS 1004:


Feature	Software Entitlement
NCS1K4 - 100G without encryption	S_NCS1K4_100
NCS1K4 smart license - 100G with encrypiton	S-NCS1K4-LIC-100X=
NCS1K4 - 400G without encryption	S_NCS1K4_400
NCS1K4 - 100G with encryption	S-NCS1K4-LIC-100X=
NCS1K4 - 400G - with encrypition	S_NCS1K4_400_ENC

Sample output for 100G smart licensing without encryption on the 1.2T card

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ios#show license summary
Fri Feb 24 14:42:02.029 UTC

Smart Licensing is ENABLED

Registration:
  Status: REGISTERED
  Smart Account: BU Production Test
  Virtual Account: NCS1000
  Export-Controlled Functionality: ALLOWED
  Last Renewal Attempt: None
  Next Renewal Attempt: Aug 14 2023 16:53:02 UTC

License Authorization:
  Status: AUTHORIZED
  Last Communication Attempt: SUCCEEDED
  Next Communication Attempt: Mar 26 2023 14:41:27 UTC

Sample output for 100G smart licensing with encryption on the 1.2T card:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ios#show license summary
Fri Feb 24 14:42:02.029 UTC

Smart Licensing is ENABLED

Registration:
  Status: REGISTERED
  Smart Account: BU Production Test
  Virtual Account: NCS1000
  Export-Controlled Functionality: ALLOWED
  Last Renewal Attempt: None
  Next Renewal Attempt: Aug 14 2023 16:53:02 UTC

License Authorization:
  Status: AUTHORIZED
  Last Communication Attempt: SUCCEEDED
  Next Communication Attempt: Mar 26 2023 14:41:27 UTC

License Usage:
  License                 Entitlement Tag               Count Status
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  NCS1K4 - 100G           (S_NCS1K4_100)                    7 AUTHORIZED

Sample output for 100G smart licensing without encryption on OTN-XP card:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ios#show license summary
Fri Feb 24 14:42:02.029 UTC

Smart Licensing is ENABLED

Registration:
  Status: REGISTERED
  Smart Account: BU Production Test
  Virtual Account: NCS1000
  Export-Controlled Functionality: ALLOWED
  Last Renewal Attempt: None
  Next Renewal Attempt: Aug 14 2023 16:53:02 UTC

License Authorization:
  Status: AUTHORIZED
  Last Communication Attempt: SUCCEEDED
  Next Communication Attempt: Mar 26 2023 14:41:27 UTC

License Usage:
  License                                Entitlement Tag                    Count Status
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  NCS1K4 smart license...    (S-NCS1K4-LIC-100X=)              1 AUTHORIZED

Sample output for 100G smart licensing without encryption on OTN-XP card.

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ios#show license summary
Fri Feb 24 14:42:02.029 UTC

Smart Licensing is ENABLED

Registration:
  Status: REGISTERED
  Smart Account: BU Production Test
  Virtual Account: NCS1000
  Export-Controlled Functionality: ALLOWED
  Last Renewal Attempt: None
  Next Renewal Attempt: Aug 14 2023 16:53:02 UTC

License Authorization:
  Status: AUTHORIZED
  Last Communication Attempt: SUCCEEDED
  Next Communication Attempt: Mar 26 2023 14:41:27 UTC

License Usage:
  License                 Entitlement Tag               Count Status
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  NCS1K4 - 100G           (S_NCS1K4_100)                    1 AUTHORIZED

Sample output for 100G smart licensing with encryption on OTN-XP card

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ios#show license summary
Fri Feb 24 14:42:02.029 UTC
Smart Licensing is ENABLED
Registration:
Status: REGISTERED
Smart Account: BU Production Test
Virtual Account: NCS1000
Export-Controlled Functionality: ALLOWED
Last Renewal Attempt: None
Next Renewal Attempt: Aug 14 2023 16:53:02 UTC
License Authorization:
Status: AUTHORIZED
Last Communication Attempt: SUCCEEDED
Next Communication Attempt: Mar 26 2023 14:41:27 UTC
License Usage:
License Entitlement Tag Count Status
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
NCS1K4 smart license... (S-NCS1K4-LIC-100X=) 1 AUTHORIZED

Sample output for 400G smart licensing without encryption on OTN-XP card

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ios#show license summary
Fri Feb 24 14:42:02.029 UTC
Smart Licensing is ENABLED
Registration:
Status: REGISTERED
Smart Account: BU Production Test
Virtual Account: NCS1000
Export-Controlled Functionality: ALLOWED
Last Renewal Attempt: None
Next Renewal Attempt: Aug 14 2023 16:53:02 UTC
License Authorization:
Status: AUTHORIZED
Last Communication Attempt: SUCCEEDED
Next Communication Attempt: Mar 26 2023 14:41:27 UTC
License Usage:
License Entitlement Tag Count Status
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
NCS1K4 - 400G (S_NCS1K4_400) 1 AUTHORIZED

Sample output for 400G smart licensing with encryption on OTN-XP card

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ios#show license summary
Fri Feb 24 14:42:02.029 UTC
Smart Licensing is ENABLED
Registration:
Status: REGISTERED
Smart Account: BU Production Test
Virtual Account: NCS1000
Export-Controlled Functionality: ALLOWED
Last Renewal Attempt: None
Next Renewal Attempt: Aug 14 2023 16:53:02 UTC
License Authorization:
Status: AUTHORIZED
Last Communication Attempt: SUCCEEDEDNext Communication Attempt: Mar 26 2023 14:41:27 UTC
License Usage:
License Entitlement Tag Count Status
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
NCS1K4 - 400G - ENC (S_NCS1K4_400_ENC) 1 AUTHORIZED

The following sample output displays 100G smart licensing without encryption on OTN-XP card:

The following sample output displays 100G smart licensing with encryption on OTN-XP card:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ios#show license summary
Fri Feb 24 14:42:02.029 UTC

Smart Licensing is ENABLED

Registration:
  Status: REGISTERED
  Smart Account: BU Production Test
  Virtual Account: NCS1000
  Export-Controlled Functionality: ALLOWED
  Last Renewal Attempt: None
  Next Renewal Attempt: Aug 14 2023 16:53:02 UTC

License Authorization:
  Status: AUTHORIZED
  Last Communication Attempt: SUCCEEDED
  Next Communication Attempt: Mar 26 2023 14:41:27 UTC
   License Usage:
  License                 Entitlement Tag               Count Status
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  NCS1K4 smart license... (S-NCS1K4-LIC-100X=)              1 AUTHORIZED

The following sample output displays smart licensing support for 400G without encryption on OTN-XP card:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ios#show license summary
Fri Feb 24 14:42:02.029 UTC

Smart Licensing is ENABLED

Registration:
  Status: REGISTERED
  Smart Account: BU Production Test
  Virtual Account: NCS1000
  Export-Controlled Functionality: ALLOWED
  Last Renewal Attempt: None
  Next Renewal Attempt: Aug 14 2023 16:53:02 UTC

License Authorization:
  Status: AUTHORIZED
  Last Communication Attempt: SUCCEEDED
  Next Communication Attempt: Mar 26 2023 14:41:27 UTC

License Usage:
  License                 Entitlement Tag               Count Status
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  NCS1K4 - 400G           (S_NCS1K4_400)                    1 AUTHORIZED

The following sample output displays smart licensing support for 400G with encryption on OTN-XP card:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ios#show license summary
Fri Feb 24 14:42:02.029 UTC

Smart Licensing is ENABLED

Registration:
  Status: REGISTERED
  Smart Account: BU Production Test
  Virtual Account: NCS1000
  Export-Controlled Functionality: ALLOWED
  Last Renewal Attempt: None
  Next Renewal Attempt: Aug 14 2023 16:53:02 UTC

License Authorization:
  Status: AUTHORIZED
  Last Communication Attempt: SUCCEEDED
  Next Communication Attempt: Mar 26 2023 14:41:27 UTC

License Usage:
  License                 Entitlement Tag               Count Status
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  NCS1K4 - 400G - ENC     (S_NCS1K4_400_ENC)                1 AUTHORIZED