SECURITY CONTEXT LICENSE INQUIRY

[john.dejesus]

To All,

I have two ASA 5510, below are their licenses. My question is if I want to increase the number of security context, what license do I need to purchase? I tried to googled it, and it redirects me to ASA5500-SC-5. Is this a module? or a new box? Can someone help me on this? Thank you in advance

Licensed features for this platform:

Maximum Physical Interfaces  : Unlimited

Maximum VLANs                : 100      

Inside Hosts                 : Unlimited

Failover                     : Active/Active

VPN-DES                      : Enabled  

VPN-3DES-AES                 : Enabled  

Security Contexts            : 2        

GTP/GPRS                     : Disabled 

VPN Peers                    : 250      

WebVPN Peers                 : 2        

AnyConnect for Mobile        : Disabled 

AnyConnect for Linksys phone : Disabled 

Advanced Endpoint Assessment : Disabled 

[Jennifer Halim · Accepted solution]

No, that is exactly what you are looking for, ie: the security context license for 5 contexts:

ASA5500-SC-5     ASA 5500 5 Security Contexts License

Hope that helps.

[john.dejesus]

Okay, this is just a license file or key that needs to be activated, right? No need to replace my two ASAs? just wanna make sure.

[Jennifer Halim · Accepted solution]

Correct, it's just a license key that needs to be activated. Once you purchase the license key, you will get a PAK, and you can register that via the following:

https://tools.cisco.com/SWIFT/Licensing/PrivateRegistrationServlet

Then it will give you an activation key that you enter to your ASA.

[john.dejesus]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

[jecheand]

Hi Jenifer,

If i have an ASA 5540 that is licensed for 20 context and i want to make and upgrade on them.

Do i must purchased the next p/n upgrade from 20 to 50 contexts

ASA5500-SC-20-50=     ASA 5500 20 to 50 Security Context License Upgrade

or i can purchase the 10 pack context upgrade

ASA5500-SC-10=

so i can only increase the contexts from 20 to 30.

Thanks!

[Jennifer Halim]

You would need to purchase the upgrade from 20 to 50 contexts license, ie:

ASA5500-SC-20-50=

So your first statement is absolutely correct.

[jecheand]

So, its no possible to upgrade the contexts on an ASA5540 from 20 to 30?

[Jennifer Halim]

no, unfortunately you can't upgrade from 20 to 30, only from 20 to 50