- Start
- What's New
- Getting Started
- User Guide
- About
- Basic Operations
- Network Element Drivers and Adding Devices
- Managing Network Services
- NSO CLI
- The NSO Device Manager
- SSH Key Management
- Alarm Manager
- Plug-and-play Scripting
- Compliance reporting
- NSO Packages
- Life-cycle Operations - Manipulating Existing Services and Devices
- Web User Interface
- Network Simulator
- Administration Guide
- Northbound APIs
- Development Guide
- Preface
- Development Environment and Resources
- The Configuration Database and YANG
- Basic Automation with Python
- Developing a Simple Service
- Applications in NSO
- Implementing Services
- Templates
- Services Deep Dive
- The NSO Java VM
- The NSO Python VM
- Embedded Erlang applications
- The YANG Data Modeling Language
- Using CDB
- Java API Overview
- Python API Overview
- NSO Packages
- Package Development
- Service Development Using Java
- NED Development
- NED Upgrades and Migration
- Service Handling of Ambiguous Device Models
- Scaling and Performance Optimization
- NSO Concurrency Model
- Developing Alarm Applications
- SNMP Notification Receiver
- The web server
- Kicker
- Scheduler
- Progress Trace
- Nano Services for Staged Provisioning
- Encryption Keys
- External Logging
- NSO Developer Studio
- Web UI
- Layered Service Architecture
- Manual Pages
- NSO Documentation Home
- NSO SDK API Reference
- NSO Change Log Explorer
- NSO NED Change Log Explorer
- NSO NED Capabilities Explorer
- NSO on DevNet
- Get Support
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Cisco Smart Licensing is a cloud-based approach to licensing and it simplifies purchase, deployment and management of Cisco software assets. Entitlements are purchased through a Cisco account via Cisco Commerce Workspace (CCW) and are immediately deposited into a Smart Account for usage. This eliminates the need to install license files on every device. Products that are smart enabled communicate directly to Cisco to report consumption.
Cisco Smart Software Manager (CSSM) enables the management of software licenses and Smart Account from a single portal. The interface allows you to activate your product, manage entitlements, renew and upgrade software.
A functioning Smart Account is required to complete the registration process. For detailed information about CSSM, see Cisco Smart Software Manager.
A Virtual Account exists as a sub-account within the Smart Account. Virtual Accounts are a customer defined structure based on organizational layout, business function, geography or any defined hierarchy. They are created and maintained by the Smart Account administrator(s).
Visit Cisco Cisco Software Central to learn about how to create and manage Smart Accounts.
The creation of a new Smart Account is a one-time event and subsequent management of users is a capability provided through the tool. To request a Smart Account, visit Cisco Cisco Software Central and take the following steps:
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After logging in select Request a Smart Account in the Administration section:
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Select the type of Smart Account to create. There are two options: (a) Individual Smart Account requiring agreement to represent your company. By creating this Smart Account you agree to authorization to create and manage product and service entitlements, users and roles on behalf of your organization. (b) Create the account on behalf of someone else.
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Provide the required domain identifier and the preferred account name:
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The account request will be pending an approval of the Account Domain Identifier. A subsequent email will be sent to the requester to complete the setup process:
Smart Account user management is available in the Administration section of Cisco Cisco Software Central. Take the following steps to add a new user to a Smart Account:
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After logging in Select "Manage Smart Account" in the Administration section:
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Choose the Users tab:
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Select New User and follow the instructions in the wizard to add a new user:
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To create a new token, log into CSSM and select the appropriate Virtual Account:
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Click on the "Smart Licenses" link to enter CSSM:
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In CSSM click on "New Token...":
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Follow the dialog to provide a description, expiration and export compliance applicability before accepting the terms and responsibilities. Click on "Create Token" to continue.
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Click on the new token:
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Copy the token from the dialogue window into your clipboard:
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Go to the NSO CLI and provide the token to the license smart register idtoken command:
admin@ncs#
license smart register idtoken YzY2YjFlOTYtOWYzZi00MDg1...Registration process in progress. Use the 'show license status' command to check the progress and result.
Note
If ncs.conf contains configuration for any of java-executable, java-options, override-url/url or proxy/url under the configure path /ncs-config/smart-license/smart-agent/ any corresponding configuration done via the CLI is ignored.
Note
The smart licensing component of NSO runs its own Java virtual machine. Usually the default Java options are sufficient:
leaf java-options {
tailf:info "Smart licensing Java VM start options";
type string;
default "-Xmx64M -Xms16M
-Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom";
description
"Options which NCS will use when starting
the Java VM.";}If you for some reason need to modify the Java options, remember to include the default values as found in the YANG model.
- show license all
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Displays all information
- show license status
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Displays status information
- show license summary
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Displays summary
- show license tech
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Displays license tech support information
- show license usage
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Displays usage information
- debug smart_lic all
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All available Smart Licensing debug flags