Cisco iOS 15 Licensing Hi all, about 2 months ago my collegue RMA'ed a 2921 Voice bun. Little did i know the replacement didn't have the perm license and was running the eval license so I am here 58 days later and 2 days left of the eval license. Now create your license file: nano iourc Paste the two lines in there for the license file, the first line is license press Ctrl-O to save press Ctrl-X to exit. You may also need to make the iourc file executable: chmod +x iourc. Now paste the line starting with grep in the console. That should be it and the IOL should start now. Generate the license. After running this command, a file called iourc.txt will be created. Copy and paste the license key in the file to the Preference IOS on UNIX section of GNS3.
Generate the license. After running this command, a file called iourc.txt will be created. Copy and paste the license key in the file to the Preference IOS on UNIX section of GNS3.
After looking at the announcement for End of Life support for IOS 12.4 (and you know that IOS 15 is the next version dont you ?) it’s worth looking into the big changes in IOS Feature licensing in case you are not aware of them.
Single Image
IOS 15 is a single software package for the hardware platform that your are using. Now that flash is cheap and large, there doesn’t need to be a different IOS image for the different versions with the advanced features. So you get one software image that has all the features for that platform.
Licensing and Cisco Licensing Manager
You should note that IOS 15 enforces licensing for the Advanced feature sets. That is, you will need to register a license key for every IOS image that needs Advanced IP and receive an activation key to activate those features.
Licensing is basically similar to how the ASA software licenses work today. You need to buy the license, receive the PAK key on a piece of paper, register this on Cisco website to receive an activation key and then enter it into the router. If you want access to the advanced feature sets, you will need to purchase the license and activate it on the router.
Yes, Cisco equipment just got a whole lot harder to manage.
Cisco License Manager
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If you are a large company, it is time to implement Cisco Licensing Manager to manage the licenses on all of your equipment. This will allow you to manage and transfer licenses between physical units.
Operational Procedures
Note that when you replace a faulty router, you will have to activate the license on that router as part of the recovery process. So you will need to update your field engineers to make sure that they know how to do this and perform License Transfer Between Two Working Devices or get on the phone to the TAC or use the web to transfer a license.
I can’t see any point in blogging about this in detail, Cisco IOS 15.0 documentation is clear and concise as always. Cisco really does the best documentation.
You can find out more in the†Software Activation Configuration Guide.
Time to go and learn what you need to know.
Cisco devices have a standard serial number, from the serial number you can work out it's age and the location it was built.
To decipher the serial number, here's how it is composed.
Cisco S/N format is LLLYYWWXXXX.
LLL = Location code (i.e. FOC = FoxConn China)
YY = Year code (08 = 2004...09=2005...etc...)
WW = Week code (weeks 01 to 52)
XXXX = Base-34 Alpha Numeric Unique identifier (Includes 0 to 9 & entire alphabet except I & O).
Location codes:
CTH --- Celestica - Thailand
FOC --- Foxconn - Shenzhen, China
JAB --- Jabil - Florida
JPE --- Jabil - Malaysia
JSH --- Jabil - Shanghai , China
TAU --- Solectron - Texas
PEN --- Solectron - Malaysia
Year codes:
01 = 1997
02 = 1998
03 = 1999
04 = 2000
05 = 2001
06 = 2002
07 = 2003
08 = 2004
09 = 2005
10 = 2006
11 = 2007
12 = 2008
13 = 2009
14 = 2010
15 = 2011
16 = 2012
17 = 2013
18 = 2014
2 Steps total
Step 1: Get a Cisco serial number.
We'll use FOC0849N1BD.
The serial number can be obtained by looking at the rear of the device and it will be a white sticker with black printed letter, alternatively enter the command 'show version' onto the command line and look for the serial number in the output.
Step 2: Deciper!
FOC0849N1BD
Built in Foxconn, China in 2004 in week 49 of production and it's unique code is N1BD.
Knowing the actual age, not the purchase age, of you Cisco equipment can aid in forward planning for techical refreshing of you equipment.
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5 Comments
Cisco Ios 15 License Key Generator
- Thai PepperBloodHoundGang Oct 18, 2014 at 02:14pm
I think if you explained hot to pull the serial number from the device along with this it would have been more informative. But good information thanks for sharing.
- Macebrianwhelton Oct 18, 2014 at 05:13pm
Fair one, should have thought of that, I've added it!
- JalapenoMitch9775 Oct 24, 2014 at 05:50pm
Nice work! I didn't realize that's how the SNs were comprised. Cool :)
- Pimientodirtdigger Feb 19, 2019 at 10:38am
Hi, and this serial, it's a SFP. Same rule?
FNS18431JBW
what can you tell about this one - Macebrianwhelton Feb 19, 2019 at 09:32pm
No, this only checks Cisco switches and Routers, you could try https://cway.cisco.com/sncheck/ is you have a Cisco support contract.