AP and Switch Capacity Licenses

Onboarding fully operational access points and switches to the SmartZone controller requires one capacity license per device (meaning, one AP Capacity License per access point and one Switch Capacity License per switch). When all applicable capacity licenses have been consumed, attempting to onboard new devices to the controller will fail and be reported with an error, such as: “AP onboarding failed due to not enough capacity licenses” or "Switch registration rejected by SZ due to license capacity".

To check the licensing information from the CLI of the controller, refer to the RUCKUS SmartZone Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide

Note: The Virtual SmartZone controllers come with default permanent Capacity licenses for one Access Point and one ICX Switch. If you plan to manage additional AP or switch devices, then licenses for additional devices must be acquired separately.

Note: Beginning with SmartZone release 6.1.0, the SZ-144 platform supports 25 permanent AP Capacity licenses. You may upgrade your SZ-144 firmware from earlier versions to release 6.1.0 or later to get the 25 permanent AP licenses.

Note: For SmartZone controllers operating in cluster mode, the capacity license availability is shared across all the nodes in the cluster. Refer to the RUCKUS SmartZone Controller Administration Guide for more details about cluster definition.

In this section:

  1. Verifying the Available AP Capacity Licenses in the Controller
  2. Verifying the Available Switch Capacity Licenses in the Controller
Parent topic: Licensing Requirements for Managing Access Points and Switches