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Nexus 5000 Licensing

m.glosson
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Even though I've been around Cisco for a long time and am quite comfortable with IOS switches and routers, I'm new to setting up an N5K from scratch. I wanted to enable EIGRP so I ran "feature eigrp" and got:

No available license - LAN_BASE_SERVICES_PKG error Feature does not have an installed license

I found the command show license usage and it yielded this result:

Feature                      Ins  Lic   Status Expiry Date Comments
                                 Count
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FCOE_NPV_PKG                  No    -   Unused             -
FM_SERVER_PKG                 No    -   Unused             -
ENTERPRISE_PKG                Yes   -   Unused Never       -
FC_FEATURES_PKG               Yes   -   Unused Never       -
VMFEX_FEATURE_PKG             No    -   Unused             -
ENHANCED_LAYER2_PKG           No    -   Unused             -
LAN_BASE_SERVICES_PKG         No    -   Unused             -
LAN_ENTERPRISE_SERVICES_PKG   No    -   Unused             -
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This indicates to me, though perhaps I'm wrong, that there is an available license for the ENTERPRISE_PKG. This package, based on what I found on the Internet, should support Layer-3 routing and dynamic routing protocols. The license status is Ins, which I'm guessing means "installed" yet is marked as Unused. Am I correct in my assumptions? If so, how to do move it from an Unused state to an In Use state?

Here are some pertinent details:

Software
  BIOS:      version 3.6.0
  loader:    version N/A
  kickstart: version 7.0(5)N1(1)
  system:    version 7.0(5)N1(1)
  Power Sequencer Firmware:
             Module 1: version v3.0
             Module 3: version v2.0
  Microcontroller Firmware:        version v1.2.0.1
  SFP uC:    Module 1: v1.1.0.0
  QSFP uC:   Module not detected
  BIOS compile time:       05/09/2012
  kickstart image file is: bootflash:///n5000-uk9-kickstart.7.0.5.N1.1.bin
  kickstart compile time:  10/29/2014 22:00:00 [10/30/2014 06:30:37]
  system image file is:    bootflash:///n5000-uk9.7.0.5.N1.1.bin
  system compile time:     10/29/2014 22:00:00 [10/30/2014 11:45:59]


Hardware
  cisco Nexus5548 Chassis ("O2 32X10GE/Modular Universal Platform Supervisor")

System version: 7.0(5)N1(1)

# show license
INCREMENT FC_FEATURES_PKG cisco 1.0 permanent uncounted 
 VENDOR_STRING=MDS HOSTID=VDH=SSI185209JC 
 NOTICE=<LicFileID>20150505192515000</LicFileID><LicLineID>1</LicLineID><PAK>N5K-C5548UPSSI185209JC</PAK>
 SIGN=23D17A02ACC6
INCREMENT ENTERPRISE_PKG cisco 1.0 permanent uncounted 
 VENDOR_STRING=MDS HOSTID=VDH=SSI185209JC
 NOTICE=<LicFileID>20150505192515000</LicFileID><LicLineID>1</LicLineID><PAK>N5K-C5548UPSSI185209JC</PAK>
 SIGN=5BE91BB835B8

I tried entering those PAKs onto cisco.com/go/license but it said "N5K-C5548UPSSI185209JC is completely fulfilled."

Thanks.

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m.glosson
Level 1
Level 1

I think I just found the answer. Of course it's just after posting the question. EIGRP requires a LAN_ENTERPRISE_SERVICES_PKG license... the ENTERPRISE_PKG and FC_FEATURES_PKG are for Fibre Channel stuff. Just to test I ran "feature fcoe" and now the FC_FEATURES_PKG has moved to In Use. 

So I'm unlicensed for EIGRP then. Mystery solved.