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Installing and Migrating to Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1

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Chapter 3 Preparing to Install Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1

Licensing Your Product

Guidelines to Avoid Necessary Devices Being Moved to Suspended State

To avoid necessary devices being moved to suspended state, follow any one of the procedure mentioned

below:

• Install the appropriate purchase license while installing the product.

Before applying the 50 SKU license, you can select the particular set of 50 devices by configuring

the Group Policy.

To configure the Group Policy, select Inventory > Device Administration > Device Allocation

Policy > Manage By Groups from the LMS menu.

Using the group policy you can move the remaining unnecessary devices to unmanaged state.

• Move the unnecessary devices from managed state to unmanaged state and move same number of

necessary devices from suspended to managed state.

For details on managing device states, see Unified Device Manager in Inventory Online Help.

Device States After Backup and Restore in a LMS 50 SKU Server

Consider two LMS servers ‘S1’ and ‘S2’ with ‘S1’ managing more than 50 devices and ‘S2’ applied with

LMS 50 devices restricted license.

If data is backed up from ‘S1’ and restored in ‘S2’, then the device states in ‘S2’ will be as follows:

• The device count that matches the current license count (LMS 50) will be in the managed state in

UDM.

• The remaining devices will move to the suspended state.

To handle this scenario, see Guidelines to Avoid Necessary Devices Being Moved to Suspended State.

NFR (Not For Resale) License

NFR (Not For Resale) License is a default license that is valid for only 365 days. It allows you to manage

up to 100 devices.

Note You can download the LMS 4.1 NFR software from http://www.cisco.com/go/nmsnfr. You must be a

registered user of Cisco.com to download the software.

To install a NFR copy of LMS 4.1, you must apply the NFR license either during the installation or after

the installation using the graphical user interface.

To apply the NFR license during the installation, you must:

Step 1 Select the License File location option in the Licensing Information page of LMS 4.1 during the

installation. See Figure 3-1.

See Performing Installation of Cisco Prime LMS 4.1 for detailed instructions on installing the product.

Step 2 Enter the LMS 4.1 NFR license file location, or click Browse to locate the NFR license file.