ISE 2.2

[Donald Fisher]

Team,

How long will ISE 2.2 be support now that 2.4 is recommended? AS team is deploying 2.2 (been going on before 2.4 was out due to customer) we need to understand when the customer will be forced to upgrade.

[Jason Kunst]

You should reach out to the ise product marketing team directly as the control the process and timelines

Internal at http://cs.co/ise-pm

[Damien Miller]

Jason's PM contact link is probably best for internal teams. For external though, there was the ISE product life cycle bulletin posted back in 2018. It gives us enough information to ball park it, and also notice that the timeline provides two and a half years to upgrade. 18 months of software maintenance, followed by 12 more months of support.
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/security/identity-services-engine/bulletin-c25-740738.html

2.0 released on Mar 17th 2016 and the announced end of support date is Mar 17th 2021.

2.2 released on Jan 31st 2017. Based on the bulletin I would have expected 2.2 to have an announced EOL already, ending support around the same time as 2.0. If we follow the timeline though, adding 30 months from today, 2.2 could potentially go end of support Oct 31, 2021.

Following this logic, 2.4 could have an end of support date around Mar 28th 2022, and 2.6 around Feb 18th 2023.

Other than 2.0, none of these dates are set in stone, just estimations based on release dates and the published product life cycle.

[kthiruve]

Thanks for the helpful response Damien.
-Krishnan

[kthiruve · Accepted solution]

Please check the ISE product bulletin for ISE release life cycle

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/security/identity-services-engine/bulletin-c25-740738.html

I have detailed how it works in ISE upgrade guide if you are not clear and added EOL of all the releases so far.

https://community.cisco.com/t5/security-documents/ise-upgrades-best-practices/ta-p/3656934

Thanks

Krishnan