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Cisco FPR license activation

DG9 — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 09:45:46 GMT

Dear Team,

We have Cisco FPR 1010 and i have an active smart account and on smart account license is showing now i want to activate that license on my FPR so how i can do it ?

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Waiting for your reply...

Thanks & Regards

Dhaval

Re: Cisco FPR license activation

Marvin Rhoads — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:22:57 GMT

You need to generate a token in the General tab at software.cisco.com Smart Software Licensing portal. Then copy that token into your Firewall Device Manager. Details can be found here:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/firepower/70/fdm/fptd-fdm-config-guide-700/fptd-fdm-license.html#id_12163

Re: Cisco FPR license activation

ahmad.almarhoun1 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 11:45:58 GMT

The token usually is going to expire within almost a year or 9 months.

How to make it permanent one, so that we don't each time go back and connect the firewall to internet or suddenly lose option of configuration?

Thanks in advanced.

Re: Cisco FPR license activation

Marvin Rhoads — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:44:44 GMT

@ahmad.almarhoun1 once you register any device to a smart Account, the token is no longer required. It is only needed for the initial registration. It can expire, be deleted etc. after use without affecting the license registration status.

Re: Cisco FPR license activation

ahmad.almarhoun1 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:06:51 GMT

Appreciate Marvin, Well Actually I'm talking about firewall it self if you apply token to it and that token is not associated with permeant license the firewall base license is going to stop?

Re: Cisco FPR license activation

Marvin Rhoads — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:14:34 GMT

The base license is permanent. In any case, features don't stop due to Smart License expiration on FTD (whether locally-managed or FMC-managed or cloud-managed). They only give warnings about non-compliance (and you are technically in violation of the terms of use).