Cisco Unity Express License Install
Cisco UnityExpress Virtual LicensingFrom Cisco UnityExpress Virtual Release 9.0.5 onwards, only Cisco Smart Software Licensing issupported. For information on configuring Cisco Smart Licenses, see, and.For Cisco UnityExpress Virtual Releases 9.0 to 9.0.3, Cisco Unity Express Virtual softwarelicenses are based on the Cisco Software Licensing (CSL) system. With CSLlicenses, the mailbox license count includes both personal mailboxes and GDMs.The type of the mailbox is determined when it is configured.
Also, thecall-agent is no longer specified using licenses and can be configured eitheras part of post-install process or during bootup.InstallationSequenceCisco Unity ExpressVirtual software licenses are installed in the following order:.Mailbox licenses.Voice Portlicenses.IVR licensesNoteFrom Cisco UnityExpress Virtual Release 9.0.3 onwards, the licenses for mailboxes and ports areenabled by default. Moreover, the number of licenses for mailboxes and portsare set to platform maximum.For activating yourevaluation license, see.ActivateEvaluation LicensesCisco UnityExpress Virtual release software image includes evaluation license. Evaluationlicense allows you to evaluate the feature before you purchase a permanentlicense, but will expire after 60 days. To see when a license will expire, usetheshow licenseevaluation command.
The following procedure enables you to:.Display theevaluation licenses present on the service module.Activate themailbox evaluation license, accept EULA.Activate theport evaluation license.Activate theIVR session evaluation license.Verify whichevaluation licenses are activeCautionIf you use theIVR functionality, then make sure to enable the number of total ports licenseis more than the IVR sessions license. If the number of ports is equal to orless than the IVR sessions, then voicemail will be disabled.CautionIf you do notuse the IVR functionality, then make sure to either disable the IVR license orset the count to 0. To disable the IVR session license, use the commandno license activate ivrsessions.
If you wish to set the IVR count to 0, then use thecommandlicense activate ivrsessions0.NoteWe recommendthat you install and activate the permanent licenses before the expiration ofyour evaluation licenses.
Dave Bateman Profile:People often ask me how to build a Cisco Unified Communications lab. I always recommend they just install it on VMware. This results in a number of emails or phone calls asking for details or help when they run into issues. I figured it was time to document it and what better place to do that than this blog?For this blog I am going to focus on Unity Connections, perhaps in later blogs I will discuss Communications Manager and Unity. First off, Unity Connections is not necessarily supported on VMware. Therefore, the information offered in this blog is only for lab environments.First you need to pick a VMware platform.
I prefer VMware Workstation. Other people I work with prefer ESXi. Head over to and figure out which is best for you. Once you have VMware installed, you need to create an image. I am not going to walk you through the steps. I’ll assume you have built VM images before. However, I will give you the specs that seem to work best for me when installing Unity Connection 8.
Installer Disc – CD/DVD Drive or ISO file for Unity Connections. Make sure you check “I will install operating system later” if using an ISO. OS – Red Hat Enterprise Linus 4. Processors – 1. Memory – 2048.
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Network Adapter – Bridged. SCSI Adapter – LSI Logic.
Disc type – SCSI. Hard Drive SIZE – 160GBNow just start the install and run through it as you normally would. One thing that often messes people up is that during the install it will ask for the IP Address of an NTP server. This is not optional and the address you enter must be an NTP server. It checks during the install and fails if it cannot reach an NTP server. If you don’t have an NTP server on your network and you don’t want to go to the trouble of creating one, you can use a public NTP server.
However, to do this you need to assign the Unity Connection server an IP address that can access the internet. Other than that, it is pretty straight forward.