topic Migrating Licences / Features in Network Security

Migrating Licences / Features

martin.koeditz — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 13:04:25 GMT

Hello,

is there way to migrate a feature from one ASA to another one? In fact my old ASA with SEC PLUS got damaged and now I want to move the SEC PLUS feature to the new one. Is this possible?

Greetings

Martin

Migrating Licences / Features

Collin Clark — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 18:31:02 GMT

If your damaged ASA is under maintenance then yes the license can be transfered. You'll have to open a TAC case for that. If your ASA is not under maintenance, then there is no way to move the license over.

Hope it helps.

Migrating Licences / Features

martin.koeditz — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 08:53:45 GMT

Thank you for reply.

My ASA is not under maintenance. Finaly I find this solution very sad. Such a license is relatively expensive and has to go to the garbage along with the device.

Migrating Licences / Features

turnera — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 14:37:21 GMT

Martin,

Investing in SmartNet when you purchase a Cisco device helps when something like what you describe occurs. Keeping that device under SmartNet is a small price to pay over the lifetime of that device. And if something does go wrong then you have a course of action that gives you options and potentially will allow you to transfer a license to a new device if the old device should fail.

SmartNet is money well spent over the course of time.