Below are few important distance between Cisco traditional license and new smart licensing.
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Traditional (node locked) licencing
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Smart (dynamic) licencing
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Manual individual license procurement and installation
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Device initiates a call home and requests the licenses it needs.
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Node-locked licences – license is associated
with a specific device. |
Pooled
licences – licences are company account-specific, and can be used with any compatible device in your company. You can activate or deactivate different types of licenses on the device without actually installing a license file on the device. |
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No common install base location to view
licenses purchased or software usage trends |
Licenses are stored securely on Cisco servers accessible all the time.
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No easy means to transfer licenses from one
device to another. |
Licenses
can be moved between product instances without a license transfer. This greatly simplifies the reassignment of a software license as part of the Return Material Authorization (RMA) process. |
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Limited visibility into all software
licenses being used in the network. Licenses are tracked only on per node basis. |
Complete view of all Smart Software Licenses used in the network using
a consolidated usage report of software licenses and devices in one easy-to-use portal. |