Cisco EPNM Smart Redundancy License
Ensure continuous network operation with the Cisco EPNM Smart Redundancy License, providing essential high availability and disaster recovery capabilities for critical business systems.
- High Availability: Access to Local High Availability (LocalHA) or Geo-Disaster Recovery (GeoDR) features to maintain service continuity.
- License Term: Subscription-based licensing ensures you always have access to the latest features and support for the duration of your agreement.
- Platform Support: This license is designed for Cisco's EPNM platform, enhancing its core functionality for critical network management.
- Operational Continuity: Protect against unexpected outages and ensure your business-critical applications remain accessible to users.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco EPNM Smart Redundancy License is a subscription-based software license that unlocks advanced high availability and disaster recovery functionalities for the Cisco EPNM platform. It enables critical redundancy features like Local High Availability (LocalHA) and Geo-Disaster Recovery (GeoDR), ensuring your network management systems remain operational even during hardware failures or site-wide disruptions.
This license is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who manage essential network infrastructure. It integrates directly with the Cisco EPNM platform, providing a vital layer of resilience for network operations centers (NOCs) and IT departments responsible for maintaining uptime and data integrity.
- Enable Redundancy: Unlock LocalHA for active/standby configurations or GeoDR for geographically dispersed failover.
- Subscription Model: Benefit from predictable costs and continuous access to software updates and support.
- Platform Enhancement: Extends the capabilities of the Cisco EPNM platform for mission-critical network management.
- Disaster Recovery: Provides a framework for rapid recovery in the event of a major site or regional outage.
- Compliance Assurance: Supports business continuity plans and regulatory requirements for system availability.
This Cisco EPNM Smart Redundancy License is the right choice for SMB and mid-market teams needing to guarantee network management uptime and resilience.
What This Enables
Enable Continuous Network Management Uptime
Enable teams to maintain uninterrupted access to network management functions even during hardware failures. Streamline recovery processes with automated failover capabilities to minimize operational disruption.
organizations with critical network infrastructure, businesses requiring 24/7 network visibility, teams managing distributed network sites, environments with strict uptime SLAs
Implement Geo-Disaster Recovery for EPNM
Streamline the deployment of geographically dispersed redundancy for the EPNM platform. Automate failover to a secondary site, ensuring business continuity in the event of a regional disaster.
businesses with multiple physical locations, organizations with defined disaster recovery plans, companies operating in disaster-prone regions, enterprises with distributed IT operations
Ensure Licensing Compliance for Redundancy
Automate compliance with Cisco's licensing requirements for advanced EPNM features. Protect against operational disruptions caused by licensing lapses or expired support.
companies undergoing IT audits, businesses standardizing on Cisco network management, IT departments managing complex software entitlements, organizations seeking predictable software costs
Key Features
Local High Availability (LocalHA)
Ensures continuous operation of the EPNM platform by providing an active/standby failover mechanism within a single site, preventing single points of failure.
Geo-Disaster Recovery (GeoDR)
Enables failover to a geographically separate location, safeguarding network management capabilities during large-scale regional disasters or site outages.
Smart Licensing Subscription
Provides a flexible, subscription-based model for predictable costs and continuous access to software updates and support for the EPNM platform.
EPNM Platform Integration
Directly enhances the core Cisco EPNM platform, providing essential resilience without requiring separate, complex management tools.
Business Continuity Support
Crucial for maintaining operational uptime and supporting business continuity plans by ensuring the network management system remains accessible.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require extremely high availability for their network management systems to ensure continuous trading, transaction processing, and regulatory compliance. Downtime can lead to significant financial losses and reputational damage.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers rely on uninterrupted network connectivity for patient care systems, medical devices, and data management. Ensuring the availability of network management tools is critical for maintaining patient safety and operational efficiency.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations depend on stable and available network infrastructure for automation, control systems, and supply chain management. Network management system uptime is essential to prevent production halts and ensure operational continuity.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies and public sector organizations manage critical infrastructure and services that require high availability. Ensuring network management systems are resilient supports the delivery of essential public services and data security.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between LocalHA and GeoDR?
LocalHA provides redundancy within a single data center, typically active/standby. GeoDR provides redundancy across geographically dispersed locations for protection against site-wide disasters.
What is Cisco EPNM?
Cisco EPNM (Enhanced Packet Network Manager) is a platform for managing Cisco network devices and services, often used in service provider and enterprise environments for network operations.
Is this a perpetual license or a subscription?
This is a Smart Licensing subscription. It provides access to the redundancy features for the duration of the subscription term.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.