What’s Changed in Cisco HCS Smart Licensing Guide, Release 12.5

Change History

Date

Description

April 27, 2021

For cluster versions above 12.x, you must change the license mode for the UC applications from Enterprise Mode to HCS Mode or HCS Mode to Enterprise Mode using the COP file. See Migration from On Premise to HCS for details.

March 17, 2021

Added the registration URLs and token URLs required to configure transport mode settings while configuring smart account access. See Configure Smart Account Access for details.

December 15, 2020

Changed the references from hcbu-a2q@external.cisco.com to http://cs.co/HCSPartnerRequestForm throughout the document.

November 10, 2020

Updated the COP file that is used to change from Enterprise Mode to HCS Mode or HCS Mode to Enterprise Mode on the UC applications. See Migration from On Premise to HCS for details.

July 6, 2020

January 30, 2020

November 10, 2019

Smart Licensing guide is modified to enable support for Satellite transport mode.

Cisco Smart Software Manager satellite is an on-premise deployment that can handle your licensing needs if HCM-F and UC applications cannot connect to CSSM directly, either for security or availability reasons. When this option is deployed, HCM-F registers and report license consumption to the satellite, which synchronizes its database regularly with the back-end Cisco Smart Software Manager that is hosted on cisco.com.

The Cisco Smart Software Manager satellite is deployed in either Connected or Disconnected mode, depending on whether the satellite can connect directly to CSSM on cisco.com.

July 30, 2019

Initial version release