Cisco C9200 48-port NW & DNA Essentials to NW & DNA Advantage Upgrade

License consumption is easily determined by the package itself. While perpetual licenses are always permanent and without an expiration date, subscription licenses have to be purchased for a 3-, 5-, or 7-year term (and hence are also known as term-based licenses). Table 12 shows the combinations of perpetual and subscription licenses that must be purchased.

Supported licensing combinations

Cisco DNA Premier subscription

Cisco DNA Premier subscriptions offer a flexible way to buy software for the access, WAN, and data center domains. At each stage in the product lifecycle, Cisco DNA Premier subscriptions help make buying, managing, and upgrading your network and infrastructure software easier. Cisco DNA Premier subscriptions provide:

Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series switches run on Cisco IOS XE Release 16.9.2 or later. This software release includes all the features listed earlier in the Platform Software Benefits section.

Managing licenses with Smart Accounts: Creating Smart Accounts by using the Cisco Smart Software Manager (Cisco SSM) enables you to order devices and licensing packages and also manage your software licenses from a centralized website. You can set up Cisco SSM to receive daily email alerts and to be notified of expiring add-on licenses that you want to renew.

You must order an add-on license in order to purchase a switch. When the license term expires, you can either renew the add-on license to continue using it or deactivate the add-on license and then reload the switch to continue operating with the base license capabilities.

Both the base and add-on licenses are also available for a 90-day evaluation period. An evaluation license is activated temporarily, without purchase. An expired evaluation license cannot be reactivated after reload.

Note: It is not required to deploy Cisco DNA Center, just to use one of the above packages.

Tables 10 shows the features included in the Network Essentials and Advantage packages.

Table 11 shows the features included in the Cisco DNA Essentials and Advantage packages.

Network licensing

Network essentials and advantage package features

Cisco DNA licensing

Cisco DNA Essentials, Advantage, and Premier Package Features