ASR920 metroipaccess license EULA

[sherrick]

Hello,

Our company receives ASR920 routers from our VAR with a permanent metroipaccess license. When we configure new devices and go to reload them, we get a prompt saying the EULA hasn't been accepted:

Router#reload
% Unfortunately EULA is not detected for following feature/features:
% metroipaccess  
% Please configure 'license accept end user agreement' and
% use 'write' command to ensure license configurations take effect
% Continue reload will cause functionality loss for above feature/features.

Continue to reload? (yes/[no]):

This is an issue because we have a ZTP process to configure and ship many ASR920s to our clients daily. It would be operationally difficult to have an individual manually accept the EULA due to the volume and manner that we deploy these routers. 

My question is if this prompt is coming up in error or if it does actually need to be accepted?

All indications in the router itself suggest that the license is permanent and the EULA doesn't need to be accepted. I'll list the relevant show commands below. Also I can reload the router and create a working BGP neighborship, which wouldn't be possible without the metroipaccess license. Though I'm concerned if BGP works in this case due to the 60 day trial period, though this is also not indicated in the show commands. 

Router#sh ver
...
License Level: metroipaccess
License Type: Permanent
Next reload license Level: metroipaccess
...

Router#sh license
Index 1 Feature: advancedmetroipaccess          
        Period left: Not Activated
        License Type: Evaluation
        License State: Active, Not in Use, EULA not accepted
        License Count: Non-Counted
        License Priority: None
Index 2 Feature: metroipaccess                  
        Period left: Life time
        License Type: Permanent
        License State: Active, In Use
        License Count: Non-Counted
        License Priority: Medium
Index 3 Feature: metroaccess                    
        Period left: Not Activated
        License Type: Evaluation
        License State: Active, Not in Use, EULA not accepted
        License Count: Non-Counted
        License Priority: None
Index 4 Feature: 1588                           
Index 5 Feature: 10GEupgradelicense             
Index 6 Feature: 2portGE-4ports10GE  

Router#sh license feature 
Feature name             Enforcement  Evaluation  Subscription   Enabled  RightToUse 
advancedmetroipaccess    yes          yes         no             no       no         
metroipaccess            yes          yes         no             yes      no         
metroaccess              no           yes         no             no       no         
1588                     yes          yes         no             no       no         
10GEupgradelicense       yes          no          no             no       no         
2portGE-4ports10GE       yes          no          no             no       no     

Router#sh license EULA
Feature name             EULA Accepted  
------------             -------------  
advancedmetroipaccess    no
metroipaccess            n/a
metroaccess              no
1588                     
10GEupgradelicense       
2portGE-4ports10GE

Thank you

[Giuseppe Larosa · Accepted solution]

Hello @sherrick ,

from the output of show license

Index 2 Feature: metroipaccess                  
        Period left: Life time
        License Type: Permanent
        License State: Active, In Use
        License Count: Non-Counted
        License Priority: Medium

we see that the MetroIPAccess license is in use and of type Permanent not evaluation.

In addition the part of output related to EULA says:

Router#sh license EULA
Feature name             EULA Accepted  
------------             -------------  
advancedmetroipaccess    no
metroipaccess            n/a
metroaccess              no
1588                     
10GEupgradelicense       
2portGE-4ports10GE

N/A not available but the device complains of a missing accepted EULA when you issue the reload command.

You should be safe, however as the EULA process just requires one line command and then a write mem and not a reload you may be able to do this just with a little change at the configuration template you use for the provisioning.

Alternatively you can open a TAC ticket to have an authorative answer from Cisco about the state of licensing on the device.

Hope to help

Giuseppe