https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-context-licensing-in-act-stby/m-p/3090751#M133403 <P>In an HA pair the contexts combine - so you have 4 to work with (absent having added any optional context licenses).</P> <P>When counting against the license limits, only count the configured contexts (and the system context doesn't count).</P> <P>So in your example, the customer requires 4 contexts - which is what they have.</P> Thu, 10 Aug 2017 07:44:30 GMT Marvin Rhoads 2017-08-10T07:44:30Z https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-context-licensing-in-act-stby/m-p/3090750#M133402 <P>Customer has two units of ASA5585-X with base license which each contains 2 security contexts; 4 total contexts per pair.<BR />They’re looking at deploying active/standby failover and configuring 4 different context on the active box.<BR /><BR />How many contexts to be licensed in this case? <BR />4 (only contexts on the active box are counted)?<BR />or 8 (context on the standby box are also counted)?</P> <P></P> <P>Thanks in advance!</P> Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:48:11 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-context-licensing-in-act-stby/m-p/3090750#M133402 2019-03-12T09:48:11Z https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-context-licensing-in-act-stby/m-p/3090751#M133403 <P>In an HA pair the contexts combine - so you have 4 to work with (absent having added any optional context licenses).</P> <P>When counting against the license limits, only count the configured contexts (and the system context doesn't count).</P> <P>So in your example, the customer requires 4 contexts - which is what they have.</P> Thu, 10 Aug 2017 07:44:30 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-context-licensing-in-act-stby/m-p/3090751#M133403 Marvin Rhoads 2017-08-10T07:44:30Z