Licensing and Updates
You need to configure Cisco Smart Software Licensing on the Cisco Smart Software Manager (Cisco SSM) to easily procure, deploy, and manage licenses for your CCP instance. The number of licenses required depends on the number of VMs necessary for your deployment scenario.
Cisco SSM enables you to manage your Cisco Smart Software Licenses from one centralized website. With Cisco SSM, you can organize and view your licenses in groups called “virtual accounts.” You can also use Cisco SSM to transfer the licenses between virtual accounts, as needed.
You can access Cisco SSM from the Cisco Software Central home page, under the Smart Licensing area. CCP is initially available for a 90-day evaluation period, after which you need to register the product.
Connected Model
In a connected deployment model, the license usage information is directly sent over the Internet or through an HTTP proxy server to Cisco SSM.
For a higher degree of security, you can opt to use a partially connected deployment model, where the license usage information is sent from CCP to a locally installed VM-based satellite server (Cisco SSM satellite). Cisco SSM satellite synchronizes with Cisco SSM on a daily basis.
Registering CCP Using a Registration Token
You need to register your CCP instance with Cisco SSM or Cisco SSM satellite before the 90-day evaluation period expires. The following is the procedure for registering CCP using a registration token, and Figure 5-11 shows the workflow for this procedure.
Figure 5-11 Registering CCP using a registration token
Step 1. Perform these steps on Cisco SSM or Cisco SSM satellite to generate a registration token:
a. Go to Inventory > Choose Your Virtual Account > General and then click New Token.
b. If you want to enable higher levels of encryption for the products registered using the registration token, check the Allow Export-Controlled functionality on the products registered with this token check box.
Note
This option is available only if you are compliant with the Export-Controlled functionality.
c. Download or copy the token.
Step 2. Perform these steps in the CCP web interface to register the registration token and complete the license registration process:
a. In the left pane, click Licensing.
b. In the license notification, click Register.
The Smart Software Licensing Product Registration dialog box appears.
c. In the Product Instance Registration Token field, enter, copy and paste, or upload the registration token that you generated in Step 1.
d. Click REGISTER to complete the registration process.
Upgrading Cisco Container Platform
Upgrading CCP and upgrading tenant clusters are independent operations. You must upgrade CCP to allow tenant clusters to upgrade. Specifically, tenant clusters cannot be upgraded to a higher version than the control plane. For example, if the control plane is at version 1.10, the tenant cluster cannot be upgraded to the 1.11 version.
Upgrading CCP is a three-step process:
You can update the size of a single IP address pool during an upgrade. However, we recommend that you plan ahead for the free IP address requirement by ensuring that the free IP addresses are available in the control plane cluster prior to the upgrade.
If you are upgrading from a CCP version, you must do the following:
• Ensure that at least five IP addresses are available (3.1.x or earlier).
• Ensure that at least three IP addresses are available (3.2 or later).
• Upgrade the CCP tenant base VM.
• Deploy/upgrade the VM.
• Upgrade the CCP control plane.
To get the latest step-by-step upgrade procedure, you can refer the CCP upgrade guide.