Cisco Smart Account – Cisco Smart Account
Simplify your software license management
Cisco Smart Accounts provide a simple, easy-to-use solution that centralizes and organizes License Management.
– Serving as a central repository, Smart Accounts provide complete visibility into your Cisco software assets across your organization.
– You can view, store, manage, and move Cisco software assets where they’re needed, when they’re needed, quickly and for free. It only takes a few minutes to activate an account.
– When your Smart Account is combined with Smart Licensing, you get real-time, enterprise-wide visibility into your license usage, providing insights to deliver inform purchasing decisions, reduce operating costs and ensure compliance.
– This allows your operations to continue without delays or downtime and can help reduce unnecessary license purchases.
– Comprehensive, Cisco Smart Accounts give you access to your software licenses, hardware, and subscriptions.
Benefits When the When Smart Accounts are combined with Smart Licenses, you can:
– Gain real-time visibility into all your Cisco software licenses, entitlements, and users across your organization.
– Get centralized management to view all your licenses, permissions and move licenses freely through the network as needed.
– Reduced license management costs, better utilization and more efficient planning.
– Organize your licenses by department, product, geography, or other designation, whatever makes the most sense for your organization with Virtual Accounts.
With your Cisco Smart Account, you can access:
– Licensing information includes the software assets you own, what the product is for, and related terms.
– Order information shows how the assets were purchased and in what area they were purchased.
– Usage information such as which devices are currently using your software license, how many licenses remain, and if there are any non-compliance requirements.
Keep your licenses organized with Virtual Accounts (sub accounts):
– After creating a Smart Account, you have the flexibility to create sub-accounts (called Virtual Accounts) to organize and manage your users and licenses by department, product, geography or Specify other – whatever makes the most sense for your organization.
– Licenses can be merged into Virtual Accounts when necessary.
– Smart Accounts have role-based user access controls, allowing delegation of account administrators at the Smart Account level or at the Virtual Account level.
– Additionally, you can manage partner visibility and management permissions for your virtual or business-level accounts.
How to get a Smart Account
Request a Smart Account
first. Go to Cisco Software Center – software.cisco.com. (Go to Cisco Software Central – software.cisco.com.)
2. Select “Request smart account”, enter your information. (Select “Request a Smart Account”)
3. Emails are automatically sent to administrators (Automatic email is sent to Customer SA administrator)
Request access to an existing Smart Account (Request access to an existing SA)
first. Go to Cisco Software Center – software.cisco.com (Go to Cisco Software Central –software.cisco.com.)
2. Select “Request access to an existing Smart Account” (Select “Request access to an existingSmart Account”)
3. Enter the Domain Name to notify the administrator (Enter Domain to notify administrators.)
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