Cisco Catalyst 9400 System Management Configuration Manual page 129

Smart Licensing Using Policy
3. Product Instance Configuration
Where tasks are performed: Product Instance
a.
b. Ensure that transport type is set to cslu.
c. Specify how you want CSLU to be discovered (choose one):
Result:
Since the product instance initiates communication, it automatically sends out the first RUM report at the
scheduled time, as per the policy. Along with this first report, if applicable and if required, it sends a trust
code request. To know when the product instance will be sending this information, enter the show license all
command in privileged EXEC mode and in the output, check the date for field
CSLU forwards the information to CSSM and the returning ACK from CSSM, to the product instance.
In case of a change in license usage, see
Ensuring Network Reachability for Product Instance-Initiated Communication, on page 139
CSLU is the default transport type. If you have configured a different option, enter the license smart
transport cslu command in global configuration mode. Save any changes to the configuration file.
Device(config)# license smart transport cslu
Device(config)# exit
Device# copy running-config startup-config
• Option 1:
No action required. Name server configured for Zero-touch DNS discovery of
Here, if you have configured DNS (The name server IP address is configured on the product
instance), and the DNS server has an entry where hostname
IP address, then no further action is required. The product instance automatically discovers
hostname .
cslu-local
• Option 2:
No action required. Name server and domain configured for Zero-touch DNS discovery of
cslu-local.<domain>
Here if you have configured DNS, (The name server IP address and domain is configured on the
product instance), and the DNS server has an entry where
the CSLU IP address, then no further action is required. The product instance automatically
discovers hostname cslu-local.
• Option 3:
Configure a specific URL for CSLU.
Enter the license smart url cslu http://<cslu_ip_or_host>:8182/cslu/v1/pi command in global
configuration mode. For
host where you have installed CSLU. 8182 is the port number and it is the only port number that
CSLU uses.
Device(config)# license smart url cslu http://192.168.0.1:8182/cslu/v1/pi
Device(config)# exit
Device# copy running-config startup-config
System Management Configuration Guide, Cisco IOS XE Bengaluru 17.4.x (Catalyst 9400 Switches)
Workflow for Topology: Connected to CSSM Through CSLU
, enter the hostname or the IP address of the windows
<cslu_ip_or_host>
Configuring a License , on page 163
cslu-local
is mapped to the CSLU
cslu-local
is mapped to
cslu-local.<domain>
Next report push:
to know how it affects reporting.
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