AVC Licensing and Feature Activation
Revised: April 14, 2013, OL-29170-02
This chapter addresses Cisco AVC licensing and includes the following topic(s):
•Licensing and Feature Activation
Licensing and Feature Activation
Activating full Cisco AVC functionality on supported platforms may require additional feature licensing and activation. See AVC Supported Platforms for information about supported platforms.
Feature activation is accomplished differently for different platforms. See the following sections for details:
•AVC Licensing for Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers
•AVC Licensing for Cisco CSR 1000V
AVC Functionality
The AES or AIS license adds advanced AVC functionality, as summarized in Table 3-1.
Table 3-1 AVC feature licensing
|
Without Additional Licensing
|
With AES or AIS Licensing
|
NBAR1 Protocol Pack |
Standard |
Advanced |
NBAR custom protocols |
Not available |
Available |
NBAR customization of application protocol attributes |
Not available |
Available |
NBAR HTTP field extraction |
Not available |
Available |
NBAR IPv6 tunneling |
Not available |
Available |
WAAS2 |
Not available |
Available |
Required IOS XE Image and License
Table 3-2 describes the IOS XE image and the license required to activate full AVC functionality for supported models.
Table 3-2 Image/License required for AVC functionality
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IOS XE image required for AVC functionality
|
|
Temporary licence activation supported
|
Cisco ASR 1001 Cisco ASR 1002-X |
Universal |
AES1 or AIS2 |
Yes |
Cisco ASR 1000 Series routers other than ASR 1001 and ASR 1002-X Note: These platforms are also provided with the IPBASE image, which does not include AVC functionality. |
AES or AIS |
AES or AIS Note: This license is typically bundled with the AIS or AES image. |
No |
Cisco CSR-1000V Cloud Services Router |
AES |
AES Note: The AES license is typically bundled with the AES image provided with the platform. |
No |
AVC Licensing for Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers
See Table 3-2 for information about the IOS XE image and the license required to activate full AVC functionality.
For additional information about purchasing and installing the AES or AIS license for Cisco ASR 1000 series routers, see:
•Software Activation Configuration Guide, Cisco IOS XE Release 3S
•Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Ordering Guide
Temporary Activation/Deactivation of the AES or AIS License
Cisco ASR 1001 and Cisco ASR 1002-X routers support temporary activation of AES or AIS features before obtaining a license, using the license boot level
CLI command. Activating either of these feature sets provides full AVC functionality.
Note Cisco ASR 1000 series models other than Cisco ASR 1001 and Cisco ASR 1002-X do not support temporary license activation.
Activation
To temporarily activate AES or AIS features, load the AES or AIS image and reboot the router. Execute the following from the console (using adventerprise
for the AES image or advipservices
for the AIS image):
license boot level [adventerprise | advipservices]
Deactivation
To deactivate the AES/AIS license features, load the IPbase image and reboot the router. Execute the following from the console:
license boot level ipbase
AVC Licensing for Cisco CSR 1000V
Cisco CSR 1000V Cloud Services Routers are provided with an Advanced Enterprise Services (AES) IOS XE image and license, providing full AVC functionality.