We recently purchased some ASAv licenses. Licensing them wasn’t the easiest process so I decided to document the process here.
1. Log in to CCO and go to the licenses portal.
Cisco Smart Licensing
2. Go to Smart Software Licensing -> Licenses
This will show you the throughput your ASAv is licensed for. Remember this as you will need it when you configured the ASA.
3. Go to Smart Software Licensing, -> Inventory -> New Token.
You will need this token when you configure the ASA.
4. Configure the ASA for Smart License Entitlement
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | ! config t license smart throughput level {100M | 1G | 2G} ! end ! |
5. Configure the ASA to register with the Cisco License Authority.
In this step, the id_token is the token you received in the previous step.
1 2 3 4 5 6 | ! config t license smart register idtoken id_token [force] ! end ! |
6. Verify the ASA is licensed.
1 | show license all |
