I had a router today that I needed to make a CME (CallManager Express) phone system. So, I knew I had a license for this already, so I really just needed to activate it. Well, how do you do that? See below, this is what I did.
2901_Router#show license detail cme-srst
2901_Router#configure terminal
2901_Router# license accept end user agreement
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS CAREFULLY. INSTALLING THE LICENSE OR
LICENSE KEY PROVIDED FOR ANY CISCO PRODUCT FEATURE OR USING SUCH
PRODUCT FEATURE CONSTITUTES YOUR FULL ACCEPTANCE OF THE FOLLOWING
TERMS. YOU MUST NOT PROCEED FURTHER IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO BE BOUND
BY ALL THE TERMS SET FORTH HEREIN.
Use of this product feature requires an additional license from Cisco,
together with an additional payment. You may use this product feature
on an evaluation basis, without payment to Cisco, for 60 days. Your use
of the product, including during the 60 day evaluation period, is
subject to the Cisco end user license agreement
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/warranty/English/EU1KEN_.html
If you use the product feature beyond the 60 day evaluation period, you
must submit the appropriate payment to Cisco for the license. After the
60 day evaluation period, your use of the product feature will be
governed solely by the Cisco end user license agreement (link above),
together with any supplements relating to such product feature. The
above applies even if the evaluation license is not automatically
terminated and you do not receive any notice of the expiration of the
evaluation period. It is your responsibility to determine when the
evaluation period is complete and you are required to make payment to
Cisco for your use of the product feature beyond the evaluation period.
Your acceptance of this agreement for the software features on one
product shall be deemed your acceptance with respect to all such
software on all Cisco products you purchase which includes the same
software. (The foregoing notwithstanding, you must purchase a license
for each software feature you use past the 60 days evaluation period,
so that if you enable a software feature on 1000 devices, you must
purchase 1000 licenses for use past the 60 day evaluation period.)
Activation of the software command line interface will be evidence of
your acceptance of this agreement.
ACCEPT? [yes/no]: yes
2901_Router# exit
2901_Router# show license detail cme-srst
2901_Router#write mem
2901_Router#reload
Ok, so the router reloads. I log back in and I look at the license now.
2901_Router#sho license detail cme-srst
Feature: cme-srst Period left: 8 weeks 4 days
Index: 1 Feature: cme-srst Version: 1.0
License Type: EvalRightToUse
License State: Not in Use, EULA not accepted
Evaluation total period: 8 weeks 4 days
Evaluation period left: 8 weeks 4 days
Period used: 0 minute 0 second
License Count: 0/0 (In-use/Violation)
License Priority: None
Store Index: 7
Store Name: Built-In License Storage
Notice above that it STILL says 'EULA not accepted'. What the Cisco documentation doesnt say (that I found) is that you have to at least run three more commands in order for the license to be accepted. See below.
2901_Router#config t
2901_Router(config-telephony)#ip source-address 192.168.106.1 port 2000
2901_Router(config-telephony)#max-ephones 42
2901_Router(config-telephony)#max-dn 200
2901_Router(config-telephony)#exit
2901_Router(config)#exit
Now lets look at the license.
2901_Router#sho license detail cme-srst
Feature: cme-srst Period left: 8 weeks 4 days
Index: 1 Feature: cme-srst Version: 1.0
License Type: EvalRightToUse
License State: Active, In Use
Evaluation total period: 8 weeks 4 days
Evaluation period left: 8 weeks 4 days
Period used: 0 minute 0 second
Transition date: Sep 13 2013 21:50:10
License Count: 42/0 (In-use/Violation)
License Priority: Low
Store Index: 7
Store Name: Built-In License Storage
Notice that it still says there is an Evaluation period. Odd. So I thought I would reboot this router again, to see if it would say permanent after a reboot.
2901_Router#reload
The following license(s) are transitioning, expiring or have expired.
Features with expired licenses may not work after Reload.
Feature: cme-srst ,Status: transition, Period Left: 8 wks 3 days
I found out that even though there is a time period left, when that runs out, it will show as a permanent license. No worries.
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hi u have any idea if the eval time expires, can we somehow activate another eval lic,
ReplyDeletei wanna use the 2901 for my lab and the router i can get my hands on is not purchased with voice lic its only base lic.
You can request another eval license from Cisco. I have seen them give them out, but that may be with the intention of buying one. I dont recall. It may be worth a try though.
Deletethanx for the reply,
Deletewhat i wanted to ask is
once the eval lic expires,if we format the flash or change the image can we re-issue the eval lic.
as i said this would be used for a lab/test, setup down time is not an issue.
Im not sure if it would reset the eval licenses or not. I have not tried that. I would suspect that it would not, but I am not sure. Maybe someone else can chime in on this.
DeleteShane, nice article. one question.. Even after accepting the terms and reloading the router I dont have the option for Telephony-services or anything Telephony. Is there something I am missing here?
ReplyDeleteGood question. Do a show lic detail and let's see what it says.
Deletehi
ReplyDeletehow can i configure a 2901 CME SRST to work with SPA 303 Ip phones.
Not sure. It may be an upgrade of cme. I haven't looked into it.
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