throughput and licensing on ISR 4331

[gian.luca.bianchi]

Hi All,

I wonder if someone can help me find the exact license(-s) I have on my router, and especially help me find what is the currently enabled max throughput, and whether I need to buy a license to extend it. I know the throughput ranges from 100 to 200mbps depending on license applied; my device is an ISR 4331, and the IOS is:

isr4300-universalk9.03.15.01c.S.155-2.S1c-std.SPA.bin

This is the output of the relevant command:

RTR01#show license feature
Feature name             Enforcement  Evaluation  Subscription   Enabled  RightToUse
appxk9                   yes          yes         no             yes      yes
uck9                     yes          yes         no             yes      yes
securityk9               yes          yes         no             yes      yes
ipbasek9                 no           no          no             yes      no
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

RTR01#

What level of thoughput is enabled as of TODAY?

If it isn't 200m, and if I wanted to extend it to 200m, would I need to pay, or just configure some more lines on the router?

I am extremely confused as per what all the columns mean, if someone could shed some light in detail on how to read the output, it would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,

Luca

[Reza Sharifi]

Hi,

If you issue "sh ver" the router will show you what feature licenses are installed and permanent. 

As for throughput, I don't think the 4000 series throughput is license based.  So, you get all the throughput the device can offer with any license. License to change the bandwidth applies to ASR series.

HTH

[gian.luca.bianchi]

Hi,

thank you for your answer.

This is the sh ver output (relevant parts only):

Technology Package License Information:

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Technology    Technology-package           Technology-package
              Current       Type           Next reboot
------------------------------------------------------------------
appx             appxk9           Permanent        appxk9
uc               uck9             Permanent        uck9
security         securityk9       Permanent        securityk9
ipbase           ipbasek9         Permanent        ipbasek9

But I am afraid the throughput does depend on licenses; I would like to know on WHICH license, and from my outputs, is it possible to understand what license was bought and enabled on the device, and therefore understand what is the allowed throughput?

See Table.4 from this link:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/4000-series-integrated-services-routers-isr/datasheet-c78-732542.html

[Reza Sharifi · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Thanks for providing the table.  I see the range now.

If you want to know the current throughput, try this command:

sh platform hardware throughput level

This should show you if you have the base which is 100 Mb.

HTH

[Reza Sharifi]

As for license, you have IP base and security which gives you all the packages in figure-1 in this link:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/4000-series-integrated-services-routers-isr/qa_c67-728261.html

HTH

[gian.luca.bianchi]

Thank you very much Reza,

that command was exactly what I was after. It turns out I have 100mbps for now.

Many thanks,

regards

Luca

[Joseph W. Doherty]

I think that's also shown by:

RTR01#show license feature
Feature name             Enforcement  Evaluation  Subscription   Enabled  RightToUse
appxk9                   yes          yes         no             yes      yes
uck9                     yes          yes         no             yes      yes
securityk9               yes          yes         no             yes      yes
ipbasek9                 no           no          no             yes      no
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

[Reza Sharifi]

Joe,

The problem is that "show license feature" does not show you the base throughput numbers but the other command I provided does.

HTH

[Joseph W. Doherty]

True, but we also know the two license levels, for the 4331, are 100 or 200 Mbps.

[santosnun]

You may activate the temporary throughput license with:

# platform hardware throughput level XXXXX

It will work for 60 days until expires reloading after that period.

You should activate the permanent license with a PAK.

[mailvarma11]

Which command does help to get the details to validate the license? I have to identify the difference between temp and permanent. 

Thank you in Advance.

[Reza Sharifi]

Glad to help Luca

It took me a while to find the right command.

Reza

[johnnylingo]

My blog post on this: Activating Throughput License on 4351 (FL-44-PERF-K9)

[mgeorge@torchnetworks.com1]

Buddy this is exactly what I was looking for thank you!

[pcweber]

So if you have a 4331 with four 1gb copper interfaces and standard throughput license, you will never get more than 100mb port to port throughput across the router? And the max I can license it to is 300mb throughput? So no 1gb interface could ever get close to its potential traffic and never see more than 300mb?