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Chapter 2 Managing ACE Software Licenses
Managing ACE Appliance Software Licenses
• If you replace the context demo license with a permanent license, you can continue to use the
configured user contexts on the ACE. However, if you allow a context license to expire, the ACE
automatically removes all user contexts from the Admin running configuration and all
configurations for the user contexts. Before a context license expires, save the Admin running
configuration and the user context running configurations to a remote server. To view the expiration
of the demo license, use the show license usage command in Exec mode from the Admin context.
• You must replace a demo license with a permanent license that has the same feature capability. For
example, if you want to replace a 4 Gbps demo license, you can replace it only with a permanent
4 Gbps license.
Detailed Steps
Removing a License Bundle or All License Bundles from the ACE
This section describes how to remove a license bundle or all licenses from the ACE.
Note When you use the clear startup-config or the write erase command, the ACE does not remove license
files from the startup-configuration file.
Prerequisite
Caution Before you remove any license bundle from the ACE, save the Admin running configuration and the user
context running configurations to a remote server. When you remove a demo or permanent license
bundle, the ACE removes all user contexts from the Admin running configuration. By removing the user
contexts, their running and startup configurations are also removed from the ACE.
Restrictions
This topic includes the following restrictions:
• You must have the Admin role in the Admin context to remove the license file.
• The type of licenses currently installed on the ACE determines which license you can remove.
Table 2-3 lists the currently installed license bundles, the current licensed features, and the
remaining licensed features after the license is removed.
Command Purpose
license update disk0:[path/]permanent_filename
demo_filename
Example:
host1/Admin# license update
disk0:ACE-AP-VIRT-020.lic ACE-4710-02-K9-DEMO.lic
Replaces a demo license with a permanent license.
The arguments are as follows:
• [path/]permanent_filename—Filename for the
permanent license file that you copied onto the
ACE.
• demo_filename—Filename for the demo license
file that the permanent license file is replacing.