CISCO Smart Licensing User Guide

CISCO Smart Licensing

Cisco Smart Licensing is a unified license management system that manages software licenses across Cisco products. If you have a Cisco Smart Licensing account, you can associate the Cisco Smart Licensing token with a Secure Workload license.

SecureWorkload Licenses

• Tetration workload protection—For workload protection. License information is available in the Total workload license usage table on the License Usage Information page.
• Tetration endpoint visibility—For workload visibility in Secure Workload. Number of workloads and licenses consumed is available in the Total endpoint license usage table on the License Usage Information page.
• Secure Workload PLR—Purchase the PLR license to use the license reservation PLR mode in Secure Workload.

Registering for SecureWorkload Smart Licensing

Table 1: Registering for SecureWorkload Smart Licensing

New Users

1. Create a Smart Account on Cisco Software Central and purchase the Secure Workload entitlements. For more information, see Cisco Licensing.
2. Go to Smart Software Manager and create a token to register Secure Workload cluster.
3. From Secure Workload, connect to the Cisco Smart Software Manager (CSSM) portal to register the cluster and sync all the licenses and compliance information, and you can also reserve specific licenses

Existing Users

1. The purchased Secure Workload entitlements will be saved in the Cisco Smart Software Manager under your Smart Account. To manage, go to Smart Software Manager.
2. Upgrade to Secure Workload release 3.8.
3. Go to Smart Software Manager and create a token to register Secure Workload cluster.
4. From your latest Secure Workload version, connect to the Cisco Smart Software Manager (CSSM) portal to register the cluster and sync all the licenses and compliance information, and you can also reserve specific licenses.

Licensing options available in Secure Workload:

• Connected mode —The entitlement and compliance information is communicated by Secure Workload with the Smart Software Manager on a periodic basis. If you make changes in the Smart Software Manager, you can refresh the authorization on Secure Workload so the changes immediately take effect. You also can wait for Secure Workload to communicate as scheduled. See Enregistrement des licences Cisco Secure Workload Smart : portail CSSM, on page 2.
• Air-gapped mode
• Smart Software Manager On-Prem —The Smart Software Manager On-Prem allows you to schedule synchronization or manually synchronize Smart License authorization with the Smart Software Manager. To register Secure Workload cluster using Smart Software Manager On-Prem, see Secure Workload Smart License Registration—CSSM On-Prem, on page 9.
• Specific license reservation —Use license reservation method to reserve licenses from your virtual smart account without accessing the Smart Software Manager or using Smart Software Manager On-Prem. See Réservation de la licence, on page 5.

Note:

• Smart licensing is applicable to Secure Workload on-premises version and is not applicable to the SaaS version.
• Smart licensing feature requires Secure Workload cluster running on version 3.8 and later.
• For the data backup and restore feature, smart licenses are required for the primary (active) cluster but not for the standby cluster until it becomes active.
• For Federation clusters, leaders and followers must be individually registered using smart licenses, however, leader will not consume any endpoint or workload licenses.
• The Secure Workload cluster enters non-compliant state when the licenses are being overutilized or the licenses have expired. It is recommended that you take action immediately to restore the cluster in compliant state. In release 3.8, no features are affected due to the non-compliant state.

Procedure

Figure 1:

Figure 2: Cisco SecureWorkload

Smart Cisco Secure Workload

Procedure

Step 1: Manage > Service Settings > Licenses.
Step 2: Register
Step 3: License Reservation.
Step 4: Copy the code.
Step 5: Inventory (Inventaire) > Licenses (Licences). License Reservation

Figure 3: Portail CSSM

Figure 4: Portail CSSM

Figure 5: Cisco SecureWorkload

SecureWorkload Smart License Registration—CSSM On-Prem

The Smart Software Manager On-Prem allows you to schedule synchronization of licenses or provides an option to manually synchronize Smart License authorizations with the Smart Software Manager portal. You can use CSSM on- prem to register Secure Workload in air-gapped networks or if you prefer to manage smart licenses through a single connection from your network.

Figure 6: On-Prem LicenseWorkspace

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| CISCO Smart Licensing [pdf] User Guide
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