Nexus 5500 Licensing

[paultribe]

Can anyone help me with information on how to activate a Nexus enterprise license which I appear to have. Also if activated will the 5K support policy based routing or is this a 7K only feature still ?

I seem to have an enterprise license but it does not seem to be in use (See below), and the documentation I followed did not explain how to do it very well at all.

nexus# sh license

license_SSI15510EA7_10.lic:

SERVER this_host ANY

VENDOR cisco

INCREMENT LAN_BASE_SERVICES_PKG cisco 1.0 permanent uncounted \

        VENDOR_STRING=MDS HOSTID=VDH=SSI15510EA7 \

        NOTICE=<LicFileID>20120405232044000</LicFileID><LicLineID>1</LicLineID><

PAK>N5K-C5548P-BUNSSI15510EA7</PAK> \

        SIGN=F42E20F8EA7A

INCREMENT LAN_ENTERPRISE_SERVICES_PKG cisco 1.0 permanent uncounted \

        VENDOR_STRING=MDS HOSTID=VDH=SSI15510EA7 \

        NOTICE=<LicFileID>20120405232044000</LicFileID><LicLineID>2</LicLineID><

PAK>N5K-C5548P-BUNSSI15510EA7</PAK> \

        SIGN=14D2B08A9126

nexus# sh license usage

Feature                      Ins  Lic   Status Expiry Date Comments

                                 Count

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

FCOE_NPV_PKG                  No    -   Unused             -

FM_SERVER_PKG                 No    -   Unused             -

ENTERPRISE_PKG                No    -   Unused             -

FC_FEATURES_PKG               No    -   Unused             -

VMFEX_FEATURE_PKG             No    -   Unused             -

ENHANCED_LAYER2_PKG           No    -   Unused             -

LAN_BASE_SERVICES_PKG         Yes   -   In use Never       -

LAN_ENTERPRISE_SERVICES_PKG   Yes   -   Unused Never       -

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Reza Sharifi]

May be the license file was damaged during download.  Try reinstalling it again.

Nexus licensing:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/nx-os/licensing/guide/b_Cisco_NX-OS_Licensing_Guide_chapter_01.html#task_24958

HTH

[nkarpysh]

Hi Paul,

License seems to be installed correctly. It is just waiting for features related to it to be started for it to show "In Use". You can see the related feature by the following link:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/nx-os/licensing/guide/Cisco_NX-OS_Licensing_Guide_chapter1.html#con_24753

See Table 2 for N5k.

Nik

[Zar Ni Lay Thwin]

Just type feature bgp .. It should use your LAN_ENTERPRISE_SERVICES_PKG