Install Cisco MDS9124 / MDS9148 additional FC port licenses
Login to Cisco License portal at www.cisco.com/go/license
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Use the PAK (Product Authorization Key) number that came
with the printed card beside the switch or SFPs.
To obtain the license, you will be required to provide the
switch serial number along with the PAK. Use the following procedure to obtain
the switch serial number:
Login to the switch command console
Issue the “show license host” command. The serial number is
the character string after the “=” sign.
For example:
CISCOSWITCH# show license host
License hostid: VDH=FOX12345ABC
License hostid: VDH=FOX12345ABC
Here, the switch serial number is “FOX12345ABC”
Follow the wizard in Cisco’s web site to obtain the license.
It will arrive to your email mailbox, or it can be downloaded directly from
this portal.
Login to Cisco device manager app as admin
Go to the menu Admin, Flash Files
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Click Copy …
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Select:
Direction: Server - > Switch
Protocol: tftp
Server Address: Type in the IP address of the tftp server where the “.lic” file is
Server file: locate the file in the tftp server, but remove all the path, except for the filename. This is because it needs to be relative to the tftp server root
Switch File: use “bootflash:/FILENAME.lic”, being FILENAME.lic the same name as the original file.
Protocol: tftp
Server Address: Type in the IP address of the tftp server where the “.lic” file is
Server file: locate the file in the tftp server, but remove all the path, except for the filename. This is because it needs to be relative to the tftp server root
Switch File: use “bootflash:/FILENAME.lic”, being FILENAME.lic the same name as the original file.
Most of the parameters here will be auto-populated, but need
to be verified.
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Click Apply.
Then Close and refresh the previous window. The file should
be listed in the bootflash:
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Click Close
At this point, there are two ways to install the license in
the switch:
Option 1, using the command line
Login to the switch using a ssh session and type the command
to activate the license as follows:
CISCO-MDS9124 login: admin
Password:
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CISCO-MDS9124# install license
bootflash:FILENAME.lic
Installing license .......done
CISCO-MDS9124# exit
Option 2, using the device manager:
Go to the Cisco device manager and goto admin, Licenses
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Click the Install tab and click the arrow at the end of the
“URI” box. It will show a drop down list of the license files present in the
switch. Select the one that was recently transferred to the switch.
Both boxes, URI and Target Filename will be automatically
populated
Click Install
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After a few seconds the Status should say “success”
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Verify that the licenses were installed properly:
Go to the Cisco device manager and goto admin, Licenses
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The additional licenses should show up in the Features tab, Installed
Count column
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And on the main window, also the ports should be activated.
