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Cisco Licensing Hub

Welcome to the Cisco License Hub, your source for Cisco software licensing resources. Learn how to maximize your Cisco technology investments, from initial purchase to consumption management and optimized renewals.

Featured videos

Licensing Hub Video

The Licensing Hub video is designed to help you navigate and fully utilize the features of the hub page. It will walk you through the entire licensing hub platform, explaining what is available and how to effectively navigate it.

Licensing Support Video

The Licensing Support video is designed to help you navigate and fully utilize the features of the support page. It will walk you through the entire licensing support page, explaining what is available and how to effectively navigate it.

Cisco Smart Licensing overview

Smart Licensing simplifies license activation and management, enabling license sharing across devices and centralized management through the Cisco Smart Software Manager (CSSM). 


Learn and buy

Buy with confidence

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Smart Licensing

This downloadable guide provides the basics and the benefits of Smart Licensing, so you can make the right transactions quickly to achieve your desired outcomes.

Buying Programs

Learn about our buying programs to bring your Cisco software and services under a single agreement.

License activation and management

Essential guides for using and maintaining your Smart Licenses. 

Cisco License Deployment Options

Identify deployment options for Smart Licensing and recognize the methods for securely communicating with Cisco.

Cisco Smart Accounts

Learn how to leverage Smart Accounts to securely maintain a centralized inventory of your installed base of licenses.

License activation resources

Create Smart, Virtual, and Holding Accounts, request access to existing Smart Accounts, and administer Smart Accounts in a pending status. Create tokens and register a Product Activation Key (PAK) on the License Registration Portal.

Smart Account management

Software Licenses are managed using Smart and Virtual Accounts. Learn the types, benefits, best practices, and how to request and manage a Smart Account.

Optimization with user groups

As teams within your enterprise change, you need the flexibility to quickly update user permissions to ensure the right people have access to your Smart Account hierarchy.

Cisco licensing tools

Review our most frequently asked questions for license, device and asset transfers, license conversions, and optimized management with custom tags and alerts.

Ready to upgrade or renew?

Manage and renew services and software subscriptions using Cisco Commerce Workspace Renewals.