ASR Licensing

[Human374]

Hi All,

could you recommend me a comprehensive documentation regarding Cisco licensing? I've read some, but still confused. 

(I'm mostly interested in ASR licensing)

Thank you!

[Philip D'Ath · Accepted solution]

You don't mention which ASR family you are interested in.  This Q&A for the 1k family seems pretty good.

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/routers/asr-1000-series-aggregation-services-routers/q-and-a-c67-452124.pdf

[Human374]

Thanks for the hint!

Unfortunately, it's still not clear how does the Right to Use licence type work.

As I understand Evaluation Right to Use means that you can use a specific function for a given time period. After that time counts down the Evaluation Right to Use will change into Right to Use licence type.

But I do not understand what are the restrictions of the Right to Use licence.

On the other hand I heard that in some cases a feature is not usable anymore after a router restart. Which licence type causes this behavior?

Thanks for the help :)

[Philip D'Ath]

I don't know for sure.


As I understand it, the evalution licence counts down, and then o the next reboot stops working.


However, it is for "evaluation", so by then you should have decided if you want to buy a licence to use the feature or not, and properly install the licence.

[Human374]

I've also found this documentation useful:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/csa/configuration/xe-16-6/csa-xe-16-6-book/csa-concepts.html