Help with ISR4331 evaluation license

[frankjmurray3]

I am SO sick of Cisco and their F**king license bulls**t! 

I've got an ISR4331 and I'm trying to activate the throughput eval license that came with it. 

The Cisco documentation says:  use the license boot level command

okay....I give..... what is the syntax of the license boot level command? Because nothing seems to work.  I tried what I thought was the obvious: license boot level ipbase.  That's not a valid command. The question mark is no help.

Am I the only one who remembers the good old days when you could buy a Cisco router, configure it and it frickin worked! 

[Reza Sharifi]

I completely understand you pain. Cisco's licensing is a nightmare.

If you already have loaded the license key on to the flash, try installing it

license install flash<name of the file>

HTH

[Mark Malone]

Hi

what dfoes the feature set show currently for eval when using command below

#sh license feature
Feature name             Enforcement  Evaluation  Subscription   Enabled  RightToUse
appxk9                   yes          yes         no             yes      yes
uck9                     yes          yes         no             no       yes
securityk9               yes          yes         no             yes      yes
ipbasek9                 no           no          no             yes      no
FoundationSuiteK9        yes          yes         no             no       yes
AdvUCSuiteK9             yes          yes         no             no       yes
cme-srst                 yes          yes         no             no       yes
hseck9                   yes          no          no             no       no
throughput               yes          yes         no             no       yes
internal_service         yes          no          no             no       no

[Mark Malone]

These are some of the commands i have used on my 4331s

1. config t
2. license accept end user agreement
3. yes
4. exit
5. license right-to-use move appxk9
6. license right-to-use move uck9
7. license right-to-use move securityk9
8. license right-to-use move FoundationSuiteK9
9. license right-to-use move AdvUCSuiteK9
10. license right-to-use move cme-srst
11. license right-to-use move throughput
12. config t
13. license boot level appxk9
14. license boot level uck9
15. license boot level securityk9
16. end
17. wr mem

[isjonathan]

thank you! this was the concise answer i was looking for!

[vivek.kumar]

Thank You so much it worked.

[frankjmurray3]

Feature name             Enforcement  Evaluation  Subscription   Enabled  RightToUse
appxk9                   yes          yes         no             no       yes       
uck9                     yes          yes         no             no       yes       
securityk9               yes          yes         no             yes      yes       
ipbasek9                 no           no          no             yes      no        
cme-srst                 yes          yes         no             no       yes       
hseck9                   yes          no          no             yes      no        
throughput               yes          yes         no             no       yes       
internal_service         yes          no          no             no       no        

[Mark Malone · Accepted solution]

Try command below to activate

license right-to-use .......license name

then save it , reload and check if the feature output again

to see your throughput

#show platform hardware throughput level
The current throughput level is 100000 kb/s

[frankjmurray3]

holy crap! It worked!

The command ended up being:  license right-to-use move throughput

Thanks a ton!!!

[Mark Malone]

Yep great glad it worked , i hate licenses too :) had to do load of  routers recently all remote 4331s ran into same issues , thats why i saved all my commands for future , id wish theyd stop changing it but now with Cisco ONE coming online its changing again but it should make things a bit easier ...maybe

[johnlloyd_13]

hi,

did you directly apply the said command or have to accept the EULA first?

config t

license accept end user agreement

yes

exit

license right-to-use move throughput

[grettel.aviles]

Hi,

I installed a license to increase throughput on a ISR 4331, I ended up typing those commands plus license right-to-use move throughput, saved and reloaded it, but throughput remains the same when issuing show platform hardware throughput level...is that normal?

[nikger1980]

conf t

platform hardware throughput level ?

and type your choice :)

then, reload and voila :)

[Michal Stanczyk]

When it comes to the throughput license on ISR4k we need to first configure the desired throughput level:

ISR4431(config)#platform hardware throughput level ?
1000000 throughput in kbps
500000 throughput in kbps

Then save the config and reload, in order to activate the additional CPU cores that are required for higher throughput.

By default, the EvalRTU license will convert automatically to RTU after the Evaluation period is over. By that time, the user should have obtained the required license (it's called a paper license) and therefore can continue to use the licensed features.

The "license right-to-use move" command can be used to trigger a manual/on-demand conversion from EvalRTU to RTU. The Eval period countdown timer will no longer be displayed.

[rnoche914]

Hi Michal, if the customer ignored the purchase of paper license after the eval period the feature will continue to work I presume?