CISCO ASA 5520 License updates

[balajirajahpb]

Dear All,

I have CISCO ASA 5520 with Failover Active/Active license running in Active /standby mode. I would like to know whether I can use one device out of two as standalone firewall without any issue.

Licensed features for this platform:
Maximum Physical Interfaces : Unlimited
Maximum VLANs               : 150
Inside Hosts                : Unlimited
Failover                    : Active/Active
VPN-DES                     : Enabled
VPN-3DES-AES                : Enabled
Security Contexts           : 2
GTP/GPRS                    : Disabled
VPN Peers                   : 750
WebVPN Peers                : 2

This platform has an ASA 5520 VPN Plus license.

[Nagaraja Thanthry]

Hello,

You can use them in standalone mode. They are two individual firewalls with

identical license.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

NT

[balajirajahpb]

Are you sure it will not reboot every 24 hours ??

Please refer the below link from CISCO.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/asa72/configuration/guide/failover.html#wp1053685

[Nagaraja Thanthry]

Hello,

Unlike PIX platform, in ASA, the failover pair requires exact same license

(Pre-8.3 code release). So, both devices can act as standalone devices are

can act as a failover pair. However, the license requirements were slightly

relaxed in 8.3 code version. So, to answer your question, No, the devices

will stay up.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

NT

[Jitendriya Athavale]

yes you can use it, no issues

this is not like PIX which has FO (Failover only) license

[balajirajahpb]

Thanks NT,

Let me try this and update you

Have a nice evening.