Understanding How Borrowing And Loaning Of Licenses Works - Cisco IE-3000-8TC Administration Manual

License type
Essential
Adjunct
Voicemail

Understanding How Borrowing and Loaning of Licenses Works

Your system automatically comes installed with a certain number of enhanced licenses, which may be borrowed
by some other license types if the system determines that a particular license type needs additional licenses.
Borrowing and loaning of licenses occurs without administrative interaction; the system does it automatically
and dynamically without your assistance. Borrowing and loaning of licenses offers you flexibility with your
system. In some cases, if a particular type of license is not available, then the license type that is not available
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Descriptions
This license type supports a user and the user's phone when the system characterizes
the phone as essential. The Cisco Unified IP Phone 6901 and Cisco VG224 Analog
Voice Gateway fall into this category; for example, each analog port on a Cisco VG224
Analog Voice Gateway consumes a unit in the license file. Cisco Unified IP Phone 3905
also falls under the essential category.
Primary phones are not related to the analog/application only license type; that is, each
phone that is classified by the system as analog or application only uses one license
from this license type.
This license type allows a regular user (non-department user) to use Cisco Extension
Mobility on Cisco Extension Mobility-enabled phones if the feature is enabled in the
usage profile and supported on the phone.
Adjunct licenses are used for a secondary phone; that is, the user has a primary phone
assigned to him, and the user needs an additional phone. Adjunct licenses apply to
phones that are characterized by the system as of equal or lesser value than the primary
phone. For example, if the user has a Cisco Unified IP Phone 6961 and a Cisco IP
Communicator and both types of license are available (enhanced and adjunct), the Cisco
Unified IP Phone 6961 gets classified as enhanced, and a license unit from the enhanced
license file gets used if it is available. The Cisco IP Communicator gets classified as
adjunct, and a license unit from the adjunct license type gets used if it is available.
The adjunct license must be available for the adjunct phone to get added to the system.
This license type allows a regular user (non-department user) to use voicemail and
voicemail related features. A separate voicemail license is required for each regular user
(non-department user). For example, if you have 150 users that require voicemail, you
need 150 voicemail licenses. You enable voicemail in the usage profile; after you assign
the usage profile to the user, a voicemail license gets used.
Your Cisco Business Edition 3000 server comes automatically installed with 5 starter
voicemail licenses. After you install one permanent license of any license type, Cisco
Business Edition 3000 invalidates all starter licenses on the server, although voicemail
continues to work as expected for existing users, even when starter licenses are invalid.
If the starter licenses are invalid and you have not installed permanent licenses yet, you
cannot assign a usage profile where voicemail is enabled to a user. In addition, you
cannot enable voicemail in usage profiles where it is currently disabled.
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