[c-nsp] ISR G2 Licenses - Permanent vs Right To Use

[Richard Clayton]

Reuben

How do I activate a RightToUse licence, I have only ever used the permanent
process before.

Thanks
Sledge

On 28 November 2012 12:23, Reuben Farrelly <reuben-cisco-nsp at reub.net>wrote:

> On 28/11/2012 10:52 PM, Steve McCrory wrote:
>
>> Hi Group,
>>
>>
>>
> RightToUse (RTU) license are licenses that essentially are just honor
> based, ie you can freely use the features providing you have purchased the
> license, and there is no enforcement of the featureset on or off. This is
> basically how Cisco has historically licensed IOS for many years.
>
> Permanent licenses are ones where a license key has been imported into the
> router IOS and are based on a cryptographic license key file.  These are
> node-locked licenses and tied to the serial number of the chassis. With a
> bit of messing around these can be transferred if you do an RMA.
>
> If you've paid for and are entitled to a given featureset then yes, you
> should be getting what is called a Product Activation Key (PAK), which in
> turn you enter in to www.cisco.com/go/license, which then spits out a
> tiny license key file that you install on the router.  This then shows up
> as a 'permanent' license in the IOS.  Either that, or the license is
> pre-installed at the factory in which case it will show as a permanent
> license out of the box.  This is how it normally works, I've had dozens of
> routers shipped to us from our distributor that are done this way.
>
> Cisco went down the path of enforcing licensing (ie permanent licenses, no
> RTU) on some newer IOS platforms but did a fast backpedal in a 15.0/15.1
> maintenance rebuild of IOS.  Presumably a few people seriously objected to
> it and the messing around involved in processing licenses, and Cisco
> realised it probably was causing more pain and lost sales than it was
> worth.  So pretty much across the board in so far as branch routers now
> we're back to where we started, ie honor based RTU licenses where the real
> proof of entitlement is a purchase order proving you've bought the license
> :-)
>
> Reuben
>
>
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