Looks like feature sets have to be activated now? I loaded the 'trial' advipservies and low and behold all of the missing commands were back.

This platform has an ASA 5505 Security Plus license.Have you guys come across any info on Cisco’s new licensing models? I noticed the following 'stuff' after I couldn’t figure out why I only had like 6 protocol options to match in a class-map on a shiny new 881W router. Once the ASA has reloaded, we can log back in and verify that our new license - and new features - are active: ciscoasa# show activation-key I’ll go ahead and do that, though you might need to wait for a maintenance window or planned downtime. When you see this, the ASA is telling you that you need to perform a reload for the new features to take effect. The ASA tells us that the activation key stored in flash was updated (and will take effect upon the next reload), but the running activation key was not changed. The flash activation key was updated with the requested key, and will WARNING: The running activation key was not updated with the requested key. The ASA asks us to confirm that we want to update the key? Go ahead and press ENTER. The above output shows that the activation key saved in flash memory is “Restricted” while the new one we’ve just supplied is “Unrestricted”. Proceed with update flash activation key? Upgrading to our new license is simply a matter of going into global configuration mode and using the activation-key command to provide the new license key to the ASA: ciscoasa# configure terminalĬiscoasa(config)# activation-key 0x32841048 0x4a497a37 0xa09392c0 0xb7090030 0x053bcbc8 The flash activation key is the SAME as the running key. You can see what license you currently have installed using the show activation-key command: ciscoasa# show activation-key Once you have obtained a new “activation key”, the process of upgrading the license on a Cisco ASA is among one of the simplest tasks you can perform, although it often times will require a reload of the device to take effect. As new employees are hired - or existing employees begin using Wi-Fi on more devices - they may approach the limit and find it necessary to upgrade to a 50- or unlimited-user license.

The different licensing “levels” available on the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances allow an organization to buy only what they need while retaining the option to upgrade in the future, if necessary.įor example, a small business with 15 employees may start out with a Cisco ASA 5505 with a 25-user (or, more correctly, 25-host) license.

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