Licencia Advance Edge

[EdwinM]

Hola tengo 2 switch X440G2 en stack y tienen licencia Edge, estos estan en operación, sin embargo, necesito subir a nivel Advance Edge para poder implementar BGP. Mis preguntas son: ¿como puedo habilitar la nueva licencia en el stack? ¿Se tiene que caragar licencia por cada slot? o ¿solo vasta que cargue la licencia del Slot master? ¿Cual es el procedimiento? ¿Se necesita reiniciar el stack?

Slot-1 Stack26 # show licenses slot 1
Enabled License Level:
Edge
Enabled Feature Packs:
DirectAttach,Dual 10G Uplink
Effective License Level:
Edge

Por favor ayundenme a poder realizar esta configuración. Gracias.

[Gabriel_G]

Hola Edwin,

Some important general notes:
1) Each switch in a stack holds it's own licenses.

-When running 'show license' or 'enable license <key>' commands, those only check the slot that you are currently connected to as indicated by the slot number in your CLI prompt.

-You can move between slots in a stack via a telnet CLI command (does not require telnet to be enabled), which will allow you to verify/enable licenses on any specific slot.
telnet slot <#>

2) All master-capable slots need to have the same licenses enabled at the same time, otherwise one of the master-capable slots may fail.


If you want to add a new license to an existing stack, you can follow this procedure:
https://extremeportal.force.com/ExtrArticleDetail?an=000081351

The recommendation is as follows:
1) Place a restriction on all master-capable slots to limit them to the CURRENT license level (edge). This is needed so that when you enable the higher license level (adv. edge) on one switch, the other does not fail due to a license mismatch. Note that this requires a reboot of each master-capable slot to take effect.

configure stacking license-level <current license>
reboot

2) Enable the new license on all master-capable slots

telnet slot <#>
enable license <key>

3) Remove the license-level restriction, which requires another reboot to take effect:
unconfigure stacking license-level
reboot


I hope that is helpful!






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[EdwinM]

Muchas gracias, por atender a mi duda.

Entiendo que se deben cargar una licencia Edge a cada uno de los switch que forman el Stack y reiniciarlos para que tome efecto la nueva licencia.

Pero ahora surge una duda,¿ si al momento de cargar la licencia al primer switch master se pierde la funcionalidad del Stack? ¿los servicios de red dejarían de funcionar cuando se cargue la licencia al primer switch?

[Gabriel_G]

Hola Edwin,

Yes, you would have a problem if you loaded a license on a master-capable slot and the stack license-level restriction were not in place. If you were to load a new license on the master slot, it would instantly have a license mis-match with the backup and the stack would fail leading to all sorts of problems.

Note that licenses do not require a reboot to take effect, they happen instantly and will cause a license mismatch instantly after enabling the license. So you need to enable the stack license-level restriction first (which itself requires a reboot to take effect)

I hope that helps!