Renewal of co-term in advance

[Ulfen]

Hi

Is there a limit to when you can buy and activate a renewal license key? 

Licenses will not expire before the summer but customer have some money to spend. He basically asks if possible toi buy renewal licenses now, activate them as renewal now. Which in theory would add another year or three from expiry date.

I am correct? It is possible ? 🙂

I would rather sell a subscription which add more flexibility. A firm end date etc. But that's another story. You probably can't convert co-term to subscription now? 

Kind regards,

Ulf

[alemabrahao]

The Cisco Meraki Co-Termination licensing model works on the basis of co-termination, which means that for any given organization, regardless of how many licenses were applied or when they were applied, the license expiration date for all licenses claimed to that organization will be exactly the same. This is accomplished by averaging all active licenses together and dividing by the license limit count of devices in the organization.

if an organization had two separate Enterprise AP licenses, one license for 2x APs spanning one year (365 days) and another for 1x AP spanning five years (1,825 days). The co-termination value would be calculated as ((1825*1)+(365*2))/3= 851 days total for all three APs. So assuming all three licenses were applied on the same day, the organization would have a co-term date of 851 days from the start date of the licenses.

If the licenses were not applied at the same time, for example if the five-year license was applied halfway through the one-year license, the co-term calculation will take that into effect. In this case, the calculation would be ((1825*1)+(182*2))/3=730 days total for all three APs.

The organization co-termination date does not depend on the current device count, but rather the license limit. Removing devices from a network or organization will not impact the co-termination date.

To calculate how licenses impact each other in an organization, check out the License Calculator. To see a more detailed explanation and the exact calculations that are used to determine co-term dates, please refer to our detailed co-term explanation page.

License Start Date
Licenses in the Co-Termination model start consuming time from the date it was processed, not the date they are added to an organization.

Waiting to activate a license in the dashboard does not delay its activation date. There is no time benefit gained from delaying an activation.

https://documentation.meraki.com/Platform_Management/Product_Information/Licensing/Meraki_Co-Termina...

You cannot convert to subscription without migrating the entire organization to the per-device licensing model.

[Ulfen]

I know but the renewal process does not add anything but rather extend the dates. Like starting all over again.

[alemabrahao]

Renewing Your Dashboard Licensing
When a license key is applied using the Renew my Dashboard license operation, the organization’s licensing state updates to exactly match the device count of that license key, and any remaining time from previous licenses is kept and added to the new co-term date. For example, if an organization with licensing for 5x APs were to have a 2x AP, three-year license applied as a renewal, that organization would only be licensed for 2x APs for three years, plus the remaining time from prior to the renewal. In this instance, the organization would be 3x APs over the license limit, and therefore out of compliance.

The recommended practice for applying a renewal is to purchase a single license key that covers all devices currently in the organization for X number of years. Applying that license key as a renewal will then extend the organization’s co-term date by that many years while keeping the same license limit for devices.

Even if the organization is in compliance, (co-term date has not passed and the organization has not yet expired or been shut down,) the renewal license should still be applied immediately because the time on the license starts counting down from the date purchased.

Holding onto a license does not delay its activation date. There is no time benefit gained from delaying a renewal.

[Ryan_Miles]

Simple answer is yes to your scenario. You can model this with the License Calculator tool.

Example, sample Org with MX, MS, MR. 200 days from expiration.

Apply a 3 YR renewal for that exact gear and it adds 3 YRs to the co-term date.

You can convert an Org to subscriptions. But any remaining co-term time is not carried over. So you really only want to do such a conversion when the co-term period is near expiration.

https://documentation.meraki.com/Platform_Management/Product_Information/Licensing/Converting_Meraki...