Licence Renewal
Licence Renewal
We provide a simple and efficient way to renew your expiring Cisco Meraki Licences (even if you purchased them originally elsewhere) with great pricing and quick turn-around. Contact Us if you need help!
To find the licences that you need, please check your Meraki Dashboard under Organization>License Info.
There you will find a page similar to the one below, it will show you the current device count, and the number of licences you have currently.
It also shows whether you have MX Advanced Security / SD-WAN Plus enabled.
If you need help or have a larger renewal, just email us a screen-shot of your 'Organization>License Info' page to sales@cloudmanagedwifi.com.au with your company details and renewal term required, and we will request special pricing from Meraki, then send you a quote.
If you are confident you can work out exactly which licences you require, then please select the product licence from the left side of this page to show the 1,3 or 5 Year options and add them to your cart before checking out.
Please note : it takes 1-2 business days for us to receive the Licence code back via email from Meraki, which we will then forward to you to apply. They don't work weekends, so if you order on a Friday, then expect not to see the Licence until Tuesday.
If you are in desperate need to renew because your dashboard is going to expire, you can get a short-term extension to the grace period by phoning Meraki Support and quoting your customer number. This will allow you extra time to buy and receive the Licence and apply it.
How Meraki Licensing works
All current Cisco Meraki devices require a valid licence per device to operate.
When renewing a licence, or upgrading from Enterprise to an Advanced Security Licence on an MX, you must purchase a licence for ALL individual devices resident under the organisation at the same time.
For example - If you had an MX64 Enterprise licence and an AP Licence in the Dashboard, and you wanted to upgrade to the Advanced Security Licence on the MX64, you would need to purchase the MX64 Advanced Security Licence AND renew the AP license at the same time.
Organisation-wide Licensing
Cisco Meraki licensing is applied on an Organisation-wide basis. What this means is that a licence isn't purchased for a specific device, rather each licence added to the Organisation increases the number of a specific device type that can be added to the Organisation.
The number of devices in an organisation can not exceed the licence limitations, if this occurs the Organisation will enter a 30 day grace period during which the Organisation must be brought back in compliance. Should the Organisation not be brought back into Compliance it will be shut down until proper licensing is applied to the Organisation. Note: During the grace period clients will notice no difference.
Co-termination model
Cisco Meraki Licensing is co-terminating. Co-terminating means the end dates for all licensing is averaged together based on device type and licensing limits. Suppose an organisation had 2 separate Enterprise AP licences, one license is for 2 APs spanning 1-year (365 days) and another for 1 AP spanning 5-years (1825 days). The co-termination value would be calculated as ((1825*1)+(365*2))/3= 851 days per AP. This allows an Organisation to add more devices and licences over time without having to worry about a myriad of licence expiration dates.
Note: The organisation co-termination date does not depend on the current device count, but rather the license limit. Removing devices from a network or organisation will not impact the co-termination date.
To calculate how licenses impact each other in an organisation, use the Licence Calculator.
MX Licensing special considerations
Each organisation is required to use either the Enterprise Edition, the Advanced Security Edition or SD-WAN Plus Edition uniformly. For example, you can have all 25 appliances using Enterprise Edition or Advanced Security Edition, but you cannot have 20 appliances using one edition and 5 using the other edition.
The following table provides a list of the additional features you get with the Advanced Security Licence and SD-WAN Plus licence.
One of the key differentiators that the SD-WAN Plus licence has is Smart WAN Breakout which enables Application based breakout from the VPN, rather than just by IP/URL that the other versions support.
Features by Licence Option
|
Feature |
Enterprise |
Advanced Security |
Secure SD-WAN Plus |
|
Centralized management |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Zero-touch firmware updates |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
True zero-touch provisioning |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
24x7 enterprise support |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Open APIs |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Automatic WAN failover |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Sub-second site-to-site VPN failover |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Sub-second dynamic path selection |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Stateful firewall |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
VLAN to VLAN routing |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Advanced Routing |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Uplink Load Balancing/failover |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
3G / 4G cellular failover |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Traffic shaping/prioritization |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Site-to-site VPN |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Client VPN |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
MPLS to VPN Failover |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Splash pages |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Configuration templates |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Group Policies |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Client connectivity alerts |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Essential SD-WAN |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Source-Based Routing |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Local Breakout (IP based) |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Geography based firewall rules |
|
✔ |
✔ |
|
Intrusion detection & prevention |
|
✔ |
✔ |
|
Content filtering |
|
✔ |
✔ |
|
Youtube for Schools |
|
✔ |
✔ |
|
Web Search Filtering |
|
✔ |
✔ |
|
Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) |
|
✔ |
✔ |
|
Umbrella DNS Integration** |
|
✔ |
✔ |
|
Threat Grid Integration** |
✔ |
✔ |
|
|
Web App Health Analytics |
✔ |
||
|
WAN Health Analytics |
✔ |
||
|
VoIP Health Analytics |
✔ |
||
|
Smart breakout |
✔ |