Enabling or Disabling Optional Licenses

You can enable (register) optional licenses on FDM-managed devices that are using a 90-day evaluation license or a full license. You must enable a license to use the features controlled by the license.

If you no longer want to use the features covered by an optional term license, you can disable (release) the license. Disabling the license releases it in your Cisco Smart Software Manager account so that you can apply it to another device.

In evaluation mode, you can also enable evaluation versions of the optional licenses and perform all operations. In this mode, the licenses aren't registered with Cisco Smart Software Manager until you register the device.

Note

You can't enable the license in evaluation mode.

Before you begin

Before disabling a license, ensure that you are not using it. Rewrite or delete any policies that require the license.

For units operating in a high availability configuration, you enable or disable licenses on the active unit only. The change is reflected in the standby unit the next time you deploy the configuration when the standby unit requests (or frees) the necessary licenses. When enabling licenses, you must ensure that your Cisco Smart Software Manager account has sufficient licenses available, or you could have one unit compliant while the other unit is non-compliant.

To enable or disable optional licenses, follow this procedure:

Procedure

Step 1

In the Security Devices page, select the FDM-managed device that you want and click Manage Licenses in Device Actions pane, The Manage Licenses screen appears.

Step 2

Click the slider control for each optional license to enable or disable the license. The status of the license shows OK when enabled.

  • Enabled: Registers the license with your Cisco Smart Software Manager account and enable the controlled features. You can now configure and deploy policies controlled by the license.

  • Disabled: Unregisters the license with your Cisco Smart Software Manager account and disables the controlled features. You cannot configure the features in new policies, nor can you deploy policies that use the feature.

Step 3

Click Save to save the changes.