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Cisco Anyconnect Licensing Questions
Hi All,
We have a Cisco ASA 5516-X that currently is not licensed for Anyconnect VPN.
We have a Cisco ASA 5516-X that currently is not licensed for Anyconnect VPN.
Reading this ordering guide, I requested a perpetual VPN only quote for 250 simultaneous sessions. Came out to about 20k. Which is a bit nuts price-wise. Perpetual, I get it. I'm thinking a 5 yr Plus license will do us good instead, but wondering if I'll run into issues down the road applying this license to the ASA.
I'm considering the L-AC-PLS-5Y-S2 SKU, but on the documentation above, page 12, section 6.0.1 it says:
The product activation key (PAK) is used only for the initial headend serial number(s) that you register.
For subsequent registrations, you request an activation code on the Cisco.com license portal
I'm curious if I'll have trouble applying this license to our ASA when purchased through our vendor, or if I need to register the ASA, go through the portal, and order the licenses through that outlet.
Anyone have expertise to share here?
Thanks community!
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On every purchase of ASA firewall, Cisco ships product authorization key known as PAK in printed format along with delivery. The steps remain same irrespective of ASA license feature.
1.Login to Cisco registration portal – http://www.cisco.com/go/license and enter PAK key and ASA serial number, then you will get the license key by registered email immediately.
Caution: When you enter the key in ASA you will need to reboot. Also always save the output of “show version” to keep it in your records prior to entering new key upgrade.
2.Enter the license key in ASA and upgrade software license, in this case, we upgrade sec plus.
(config)# activation-key <license>
(config)# write memory
(config)# reload
(config)# reload
3.After reboot, verify that new license key is accepted
(config)# show activation-key