AVC Licensing and Feature Activation

Revised: July 29, 2013, OL-29700-01

  

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 ISR 4400 Series

•AVC Licensing for Cisco CSR 1000V

AVC Functionality

The AES, AIS, AppX, or Premium license (dependent on platform) adds advanced AVC functionality, as summarized in Table 3-1.

Table 3-1 AVC Feature Licensing

Feature
Without Additional Licensing
With AES, AIS, or AppX 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

1 NBAR = Cisco Network Based Application Recognition

2 WAAS = Cisco Wide Area Application Services


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

Platform
IOS XE image required for AVC functionality
License
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 ISR 4400 Series

Universal

Application Experience (AppX)

Yes

Cisco CSR-1000V Cloud Services Router

Universal

Premium

Yes

1 AES = Advanced Enterprise Services

2 AIS = Advanced IP Services


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 90-day activation of AES or AIS features, for evaluation, before obtaining a full 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): 

conf t

     license boot level [adventerprise | advipservices]

end

reboot

Deactivation

To deactivate the AES/AIS license features, load the IPbase image and reboot the router. Execute the following from the console: 

conf t

     license boot level ipbase 

end

reboot

AVC Licensing for Cisco ISR 4400 Series

To enable AVC functionality on the Cisco ISR 4400 platform, activate the "Application Experience" (AppX) license.

For information about purchasing and installing the AppX license, see:

Cisco Software Activation on Integrated Services Routers

Background

The Cisco ISR 4400 supports a universal IOS XE software image that includes all IOS XE functionality. You can purchase new software capabilities at any time for a deployed router. With the purchase, you receive a Product Activation Key (PAK). To activate the purchased functionality, you enter the PAK into the Software Activation License (SAL), which is preinstalled on the device.

The software activation licensing system simplifies IOS XE software deployment. The IOS software image remains unchanged, regardless of which functionality has been activated, and only one archive image must be maintained per device.

Temporary Activation/Deactivation of the AppX License

The Cisco ISR 4400 supports temporary 90-day activation of AppX features, for evaluation, before obtaining a full license, using the license boot level CLI command. Activating AppX features provides full AVC functionality.

Activation

To temporarily AppX features, load the AppX package and reboot the router. Execute the following from the console: 

conf t

     license boot level appxk9

end

reboot

Deactivation

To deactivate the AppX features, unload the AppX package and reboot the router. Execute the following from the console: 

conf t

     no license boot level appxk9

end

reboot

AVC Licensing for Cisco CSR 1000V

Cisco CSR 1000V Cloud Services Routers are provided with a Universal image. Use a Premium license to enable full AVC functionality.

Cisco CSR 1000V Cloud Services Routers support temporary 90-day activation of Premium license features, for evaluation, before obtaining a full license, using the license boot level CLI command. Activating Premium features provides full AVC functionality.

Activation

To temporarily activate Premium features, execute the following from the console: 

conf t

     license boot level premium

end

reboot

Deactivation

To deactivate the Premium features, reboot the router and execute one of the following from the console:

Option 1: 

conf t

     license boot level standard

end

reboot

  

Option 2: 

conf t

     license boot level advanced

end

reboot

  

For information about images and licenses for the Cisco CSR 1000V, see:

Cisco CSR 1000V Series Cloud Services Router Release Notes