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AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Features,

Licenses, and OSs, Release 3.0

Published: August 3, 2012

This document identifies the AnyConnect Release 3.0 features, license requirements, and endpoint OSs

each feature supports.

The Cisco Secure Remote Access: VPN Licensing Overview provides brief descriptions of the

AnyConnect license options and example SKUs. Use that resource for a simple description of each

license offering.

An AnyConnect Essentials or AnyConnect Premium SSL VPN Edition license requires activation on a

Cisco adaptive security appliance (ASA) running 8.0(x) or later. An AnyConnect Secure Mobility

license requires activation on a Cisco IronPort Web Security Appliance (WSA) running 7.0 or later.

Table 1 lists the basic features supported by an AnyConnect Essentials license, and the VPN endpoint

OSs the features support. An AnyConnect Premium SSL VPN Edition license also supports the basic

features. You can activate either license, but you cannot activate both licenses together.

Table 1 Basic Features Supported by AnyConnect Essentials and Premium Licenses

Client Feature OSs Supported

WebLaunch deployment. Windows 7, Vista, and XP

Mac OS 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Desktop

Ubuntu 9.x

Manual (standalone) endpoint installation. Windows 7, Vista, and XP

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) session to establish an AnyConnect

session.

Windows

Summary of content (8 pages)

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AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Features, Licenses, and OSs, Release 3.0 Published: August 3, 2012 This document identifies the AnyConnect Release 3.0 features, license requirements, and endpoint OSs each feature supports. The Cisco Secure Remote Access: VPN Licensing Overview provides brief descriptions of the AnyConnect license options and example SKUs. Use that resource for a simple description of each license offering.
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Table 1 Basic Features Supported by AnyConnect Essentials and Premium Licenses Client Feature OSs Supported1 Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) with SSL access to VPN. Windows 7, Vista, and XP Mac OS 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop Ubuntu 9.x Compression for TLS—Increases the communications performance between the security appliance and the client. Windows 7, Vista, and XP Mac OS 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop Ubuntu 9.
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Table 1 Basic Features Supported by AnyConnect Essentials and Premium Licenses Client Feature OSs Supported1 Smartcard support. Windows 7, Vista, and XP Mac OS 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) to provision and renew a Windows 7, Vista, and XP certificate used for client authentication. Mac OS 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop Ubuntu 9.x Windows Mobile List valid certificates for users to select to authenticate the VPN session.
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Table 1 Basic Features Supported by AnyConnect Essentials and Premium Licenses Client Feature OSs Supported1 In-the-clear DNS queries with split tunneling enabled. Windows 7, Vista, and XP Ignore Proxy—Bypass Internet Explorer proxy configuration on endpoint. Windows 7, Vista, and XP Note: Requires ASA 8.3(1) or later. Mac OS Safari Proxy. Mac OS 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 Note: Requires ASA 8.3(1) or later. Proxy auto-configuration file generation for browser-based support.
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Table 1 Basic Features Supported by AnyConnect Essentials and Premium Licenses Client Feature OSs Supported1 Auto connect on start. Windows 7, Vista, and XP Mac OS 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop Ubuntu 9.x Windows Mobile Auto reconnect. Windows 7, Vista, and XP Mac OS 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 Resume session after loss of connectivity. Windows 7, Vista, and XP Mac OS 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop Ubuntu 9.x Auto update AnyConnect.
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Table 2 Advanced AnyConnect Features Client Feature Requirements Browser-based (clientless) VPN access. AnyConnect Premium SSL VPN Edition license OSs Supported Windows 7, Vista, and XP Mac OS 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop Ubuntu 9.x Simultaneous AnyConnect client and browser-based (client) connections. Each connection has its own tunnel. Both of the following: Windows 7, Vista, and XP Mac OS 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 • ASA 8.
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Table 2 Advanced AnyConnect Features Client Feature Requirements OSs Supported Post log-in always-on VPN and the following associated features: Either of the following: Windows 7, Vista, and XP • Connect failure policy. • Captive portal hotspot remediation to relax a connect failure closed policy to let the user satisfy hotspot requirements for network access. • Exempt certain VPN users from an always-on VPN deployment. Note: Requires ASA 8.3(1) to exempt users.
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Table 3 AnyConnect Administrator Tools and OSs AnyConnect Tool OSs Supported Microsoft Component Object Module (COM) to permit interaction with other applications. Windows 7, XP, and Vista Language Translation (localization) of user messages that appear on the client user interface. Windows 7, Vista, and XP Mac OS 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 Note: Requires ASA 8.0(x) or later.