Moving Suite Control from Meraki Dashboard back to CSSM

[GBrugger99]

Our customer is holding an Enterprise Agreement with both Meraki and UNX licenses. Upon initialization, the default behavior was "Hybrid Managemnet" - but I wonder whether this could be reverted back to CSSM (+ C9800 + Catalyst Center) for UNX - without making use of Networks, etc. and licensing via Meraki Dashboard ???

[Mloraditch]

Enterprise agreements allow for a lot of changes as long as the overall value doesn't change. This is something you need to discuss with your Cisco Account Team and Partner as only they can speak to your exact contract. 

I suspect what you want will be possible as management mode flexibility is a key tenant of the current licensing practices for EN SKUs.

[GBrugger99]

Hi, my request/question was a technical one. I just wanted know if anyone had a similar situation. Our customer would like to manage:
1) Wifi7 with Unified licenses solely in CSSM / Catalyst Center / C9800 WLC
2) Meraki with dedicated Meraki licenses in Meraki Dashboard
But there's an Enterprise Agreement in place for that reason, the technical implementation defaults to just allow license management for both UNX and Meraki lics in the Meraki Dashboard. This doesn't make sense for bullet point 1. Is there a chance to revert it back to keep both scenarios separate?

[Mloraditch]

I understand you think it's technical, but the only technical part is when you link the Dashboard to the EA and then you link your smart account(s) to the EA and then your individual products to your smart account. 

The licenses within the agreement have to be structured correctly for it to work the way you want. My understanding based on all the partner training I've been at and read, is that's possible.

It's hard for anyone here to answer your questions specifically because we have no visibility into your specific agreement and EAs have MANY MANY options for structuring/skus/etc.

This is why I suggest getting with your Cisco account team.