Hi

I'd appreciate it if someone could answer this for me:

Do I need to reboot my ASA 5505 to upgrade from one license to
another?

ASA5505-BUN-K9
ASA5505-50-BUN-K9
ASA5505-UL-BUN-K9
ASA5505-SEC-BUN-K9

I believe this is done by using this command:
activation-key [activation-key-four-tuple| activation-key-five-tuple]

Are these licenses tied to the ASA's serial number or can I pre-
purchase a license and use it on a device when I need it?

Thank you

billybob.ng@googlemail.com writes:
>I'd appreciate it if someone could answer this for me:

>Do I need to reboot my ASA 5505 to upgrade from one license to
>another?

I've always rebooted the ASA/PIXs for something major like that, I
would plan for it, and not expect it to suddenly start working. Even
rebooting after some other not-so-major changes has usually been a
good plan for me, rebooting them always seems to clear out wonkyness. 

>I believe this is done by using this command:
>activation-key [activation-key-four-tuple| activation-key-five-tuple]

>Are these licenses tied to the ASA's serial number or can I pre-
>purchase a license and use it on a device when I need it?

When you buy the license you get a piece of paper with your PAK on it.
You would go register your PAK at the Cisco license website with your
ASA's serial #, and get back your activation-key tied to that box
at that time. 

On 2 Jan, 16:48, Doug McIntyre <mer...@geeks.org> wrote:
> billybob...@googlemail.com writes:
> >I'd appreciate it if someone could answer this for me:
> >Do I need to reboot my ASA 5505 to upgrade from one license to
> >another?
>
> I've always rebooted the ASA/PIXs for something major like that, I
> would plan for it, and not expect it to suddenly start working. Even
> rebooting after some other not-so-major changes has usually been a
> good plan for me, rebooting them always seems to clear out wonkyness.
>
I would also normally reboot, do you specifically know if the new
features show up immediately after running the 'activation-key'
command and then doing either a 'show ver' / 'show local-host' / 'show
vpn-sessiondb summary' command depending on the feature? This might
sound like nit-picking but it could mean the difference between
downtime for my customer or not.

> >I believe this is done by using this command:
> >activation-key [activation-key-four-tuple| activation-key-five-tuple]
> >Are these licenses tied to the ASA's serial number or can I pre-
> >purchase a license and use it on a device when I need it?
>
> When you buy the license you get a piece of paper with your PAK on it.
> You would go register your PAK at the Cisco license website with your
> ASA's serial #, and get back your activation-key tied to that box
> at that time.

Thank you, the PAK and serial number combination get the activation-
key clears up one thing for me.