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Cisco ASA 5500 Series Configuration Guide using the CLI
Chapter 3 Managing Feature Licenses
Monitoring Licenses
Prerequisites
The participant must have a shared licensing participant key.
Detailed Steps
Examples
The following example sets the license server IP address and shared secret, as well as the backup license
server IP address:
hostname(config)# license-server address 10.1.1.1 secret farscape
hostname(config)# license-server backup address 10.1.1.2
Monitoring Licenses
This section includes the following topics:
• Viewing Your Current License, page 3-38
• Monitoring the Shared License, page 3-44
Viewing Your Current License
This section describes how to view your current license, and for time-based activation keys, how much
time the license has left.
Guidelines
If you have a No Payload Encryption model, then you view the license, VPN and Unified
Communications licenses will not be listed. See the
“No Payload Encryption Models” section on
page 3-30 for more information.
Command Purpose
Step 1 license-server address address secret
secret [port port]
Example:
hostname(config)# license-server address
10.1.1.1 secret farscape
Identifies the shared licensing server IP address and shared secret.
If you changed the default port in the server configuration, set the
port for the participant to match.
Step 2 (Optional)
license-server backup address address
Example:
hostname(config)# license-server backup
address 10.1.1.2
If you configured a backup server, enter the backup server
address.