Enterprise Agreements for Cisco Meraki for Government
Overview
Enterprise Agreements (EA) provides customers with a simple, flexible way to consume and manage Cisco licenses. EAs are licenses that can cover multiple organizations and allow you to over consume, paying a consolidated bill at the end of your True Forward period. Meraki licenses are accessible by customers purchasing the Networking Suite for the Meraki MX, MR, MS, MG, and supported C Series switches and CW Series access points. Supported models are detailed in our Information for Cisco Meraki for Government users document.
Note: For our initial launch, these will appear in dashboard as if they are Co-Termination licensing but will behave like Subscription licensing. There will be updates later on to reflect the Subscription Licensing UI.
Activating your Enterprise Agreement in Dashboard
Once your order has been placed and processed you will receive a Welcome Kit email. After that, you will be contacted by Meraki support to set up your organization and activate your EA in dashboard. If there’s any issues or concerns, please contact Meraki support.
Adding Additional Organizations to your Enterprise Agreement
EAs can support networks across multiple organizations. If your EA needs to be added to additional organizations, contact Meraki support and provide your EA ID and the organization ID to be added (you will need to be a Full Admin of the org being added and one of the orgs already in the EA). Note that any existing licenses in these orgs, will be replaced by the EA after this action is complete. This also only applies to organizations within the Federal environment, you cannot mix one EA across the Commercial & Federal environment
Licensing Additional Devices with Your Enterprise Agreement
All EA covered devices, will be automatically licensed, when assigned to a network that is bound to your EA. For detailed instructions on how to claim and assign devices, please refer to the Claiming Devices / Orders.
Consumption will happen when a device is added to a network associated with your EA, regardless of its active or inactive status. When a device is part of a network, it will trigger consuming a license.
Enterprise Agreement Licensing Compliance
EAs allow users to over consume licenses within your purchased suites, and pay later at a True Forward event. This means you will never be out of compliance for adding devices that are part of your covered suites. The mappings between suites and covered product families is listed below.
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Suite Names |
Product Families Covered |
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Networking |
MR, MS, MX, MG |
Enterprise Agreement Licensing SKUs
The Meraki licenses included in EAs are Subscription Licenses and follow the same SKU structure. This means a single SKU can cover multiple hardware devices within a device model family, enabling smooth ordering and facilitating hardware upgrades without licensing changes. You can find a mapping between license type and corresponding hardware below:
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Product Class |
License SKUs |
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MX |
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MS |
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MR |
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MG |
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