If no perm license is available, then ASA defaults for no license will be set. Temporary License Expiration: When a time based license expires, the ASA will switch to the installed perm license.
They can be used by customer who want to plan for business continuity or short-term increases of the SSL VPN seats counts. VPN FLEX license: SSL VPN FLEX licenses are 2 month /60 days temporary licenses products offered to our customers. Since the only way to provide a license for a different device is by issuing a brand new one and not removing their old one, any desire to provide special discounts in this instance need to be handled through the sales process / deals desk. Once issued, they can never be revoked or transferred. Customer bought a new ASA, can he/she transfer the license? Licenses are permanent. If it doesn't help, please do the followings as a 'lost activation-key'.
License key is correct, but not take effect: If you see the correct activation-key under the 'show activation-key', please try to reboot the device. May be licensing team could request from you different information like contract number in case.
You need to send the serial number and/or PAK number to. Lost activation-key: The activation-key can be regenerated by licensing team. The activation-key is based on the serial number and must be generated by the licensing team. Troubleshooting and FAQ First of all you need to be sure that you used the correct activation-key for the correct device. Yes, that's the correct SKU for the ASA 5525-X with 250 An圜onnect Premium plus An圜onnect Mobile bundle.
For what it's worth, the Mobile license works with either. If you purchase the Premium license and activate it on your ASA it will deactivate your An圜onnect Essentials. Then Security Plus is the main big upgrade.Īn圜onnect Essentials and Premium are mutually exclusive. There is 10 host base license, 50 user upgrade, Unlimited Hosts. I owned one and there was only one license available for security plus and it inherits unlimited host as part of the licensing structure. Here is an example: Licensed features for this platform: ASA5525VPN-PM250K9 Solution.
Download ASA image download page including full regression tested interims: Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Device Manager (ASDM): Licensing You can check your license info under the 'show version' and 'show activation-key'. The images which pass this level of testing are posted to pages that are only accessible by Cisco Internal personnel.ĭue to the reduced set of testing done on these images, TAC should only provide these images to customers who are encountering an issue that is specifically addressed in the build and the customer cannot wait for the next scheduled full regression cycle. A light regression test run consists of approximately 700 test cases. The images which pass this level of testing are posted on CCO for direct customer access at the regular customer download location for ASA. A full regression test run consists of approximately 17,000 test cases. In order to balance the timeliness of releases with the thoroughness of testing, Cisco provides two different levels of automated testing on interim builds. By the time TAC finds some critical defects and with high interactions with Business Unit the fixes are merged into the new versions. This is typically because of urgent bug fixes what have been discovered since the main image has released. You can check in the 'show version': VPN-3DES-AES: Enabled Interim versions Between two major release Cisco creates and publish some intermediate images for ASA and PIX. This means an ASA image for ASA 5505 Unlimited License bundeled with the hardware and encryption feature enabled. Typically you can get these images directly from Cisco Sales like ASA5505-UL-BUN-K9.
Some images contain an extra number which indicates that image is an intrim image (in the second example that number is 11, which appears as 8.4.1(11) in the 'show version' output): Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 8.4(1.11) Compiled on Tue 14-Dec-10 12:00 by builders System image file is 'disk0:/asa841-11-k8.bin' Whats the difference between k8 and k9 images? By the code itself, there is NO difference. The first number is the Major Release (8), then the Minor Release (4) and finally the Maintenance Release (1). A typical ASA image name looks like this: asa841-k8.bin or asa841-11-k8.bin After the 'asa' keyword the numbers mean the version, what it will appear like 8.4.1 in the 'show version' output. ASA Image Names Scenario 1: Most of the Customers have difficulties to understand what each numbers mean on the ASA image namings and what are the differences.