About 6 months ago I finally got round to upgrading 2 of our pixes to 7.1 from 6.3. I didn?t use them until the other week when I found that the activation keys were no longer valid. After investigating I found that they needed to be upgraded trough the Cisco web site. I did this but the PIXes will not accept the new keys. The error I get is..
pix-A# activation-key XXXXXXX
ERROR: The requested activation key was not saved because it is not
valid for this system.
pix-A# conf t
pix-A(config)# conf t
pix-A(config)# activation-key XXXXXXX
ERROR: The requested activation key was not saved because it is not
valid for this system.
pix-A(config)#
I?ve tried both the DES and 3DES but with no luck. I?ve tried typing the code and cutting and pasting. The PIXes are unrestricted but I believe that I should be able to upgrade to 7.1 for free. Any ideas?