In my effort to make sure I post things as do them, I want to make sure I leave this one here for anyone out there that may need a bit of help on understanding the obscure process of Licensing a VCS (Control and Expressway servers)
The good news is that Cisco Licensing is already providing all the Option Keys and Features keys in one message, which makes it easy to get licensing done in just one shot! - This requires you to open a case and most of the times they will do it right, but again we are humans and we make mistakes, that was my venting about my latest call to Cisco Licensing.
OK, real quick here are the SKU’s you need to assign to your servers:
VCS-E (Expressway) Serial Number [You get this one as soon as you install the VM] Licensing Assignment:
LIC-EXP-AN
LIC-EXP-SERIES (This one is the release Key, you will get 2 with one PAK, one for the C and one for the E)
LIC-EXP-E (This one changes the name of your server to Expressway E)
LIC-EXP-TURN
LIC-EXP-GW
LIC-SW-EXP-K9
VCS-C (Control) Serial Number [You get this one as soon as you install the VM]
Licensing Assignment:
LIC-EXP-SERIES (This one is the release Key, you will get 2 with one PAK, one for the C and one for the E)
LIC-EXP-GW
LIC-SW-EXP-K9 (This one changes the name of your server to Expressway C)
Now as a bonus, here is the most common deployment for Cisco VCS-Expressway or Collaboration Edge or however you prefer to call it.
To get more information, visit the following link:
The latest version as of today is 8.7 - Which allows you to do bunch more things than previous versions
About the Author:
Andres Sarmiento, CCIE # 53520 (Collaboration) With more than 13 years of experience, Andres is specialized in the Unified Communications and Collaboration technologies. Consulted for several companies in South Florida, also Financial Institutions on behalf of Cisco Systems. Andres has been involved in high-profile implementations including Cisco technologies; such as Data Center, UC & Collaboration, Contact Center Express, Routing & Switching, Security and Hosted IPT Service provider infrastructures.