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CSR 12.0 has been released (CUCM, IM&P, Unity Connection v12.0) and a these version bring a major change for the better to licensing. No it’s not another change in licensing type (RTU, DLU, UCL, CUWL), but rather it is the ”cloudification” of licenses. Instead of using PLM to pull licenses, version 12 now uses Cisco Smart Licensing. Cisco will now keep track of your licenses for you instead of relying Cisco is moving all products to be Smart License enabled. Smart Licensing is not an enforcement mechanism. It’s job is merely to capture and report license ownership and consumption details as sent by a Cisco product. Each product deals with it’s own license Cisco Smart Software Manager (CSSM) is the customer web portal that enables management all of your Cisco Smart software licenses from one centralized website. With Cisco Smart Software Manager, you organize and view your licenses in groups called virtual accounts and can through the Cisco Software Manager satellite. This is an OVA that you deploy on ESXi which is the central relay for products to communicate back to Cisco for an organization. More information and the do*nload is located here Account or if one already exists for your org, Reqest Access to Existing Smart Account. Click on the option Smart Software Licensing > Inventory > Generate New Token Copy the text of the token to the clipboard which you will eventually paste into CUCM for it to register (see several steps later). In CUCM Admin navigate to: System > Licensing > License Management. You’ll see the following: If your CUCM has access to the internet to talk to Cisco directly, click on the Register bu*ton. If your CUCM does not have direct internet access, you will need to decide how you want CUCM to communicate with Cisco by clicking If you want to use the Smart Software Manager satellite to communicate requests between your Smart Licensed components (keep in mind that Smart Licensing is the future of licensing for all Cisco products, and currently covers many more products than just Cisco collaboration