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Chapter3 Managing Feature Licenses
Configuring Licenses
Obtaining an Activation Key
To obtain an activation key, you need a Product Authorization Key, which you can purchase from your
Cisco account representative. You need to purchase a separate Product Activation Key for each feature
license. For example, if you have the Base License, you can purchase separate keys for Advanced
Endpoint Assessment and for additional AnyConnect Premium sessions.
After obtaining the Product Authorization Keys, register them on Cisco.com by performing the
following steps.
Detailed Steps
Step1 Obtain the serial number for your ASA by entering the following command.
hostname# show activation-key
Step2 If you are not already registered with Cisco.com, create an account.
Step3 Go to the following licensing website:
http://www.cisco.com/go/license
Step4 Enter the following information, when prompted:
Product Authorization Key (if you have multiple keys, enter one of the keys first. You have to enter
each key as a separate process.)
The serial number of your ASA
Your e-mail address
An activation key is automatically generated and sent to the email address that you provide. This key
includes all features you have registered so far for permanent licenses. For time-based licenses, each
license has a separate activation key.
Step5 If you have additional Product Authorization Keys, repeat Step4 for each Product Authorization Key.
After you enter all of the Product Authorization Keys, the final activation key provided includes all of
the permanent features you registered.
Activating or Deactivating Keys
This section describes how to enter a new activation key, and how to activate and deactivate time-based
keys.
Prerequisites
If you are already in multiple context mode, enter the activation key in the system execution space.
Some permanent licenses require you to reload the ASA after you activate them. Table 3- 18 lists the
licenses that require reloading.