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Device Manager Guide, Cisco ACE 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance
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Chapter 4 Configuring Virtual Contexts
Managing ACE Appliance Licenses
• Uninstalling ACE Appliance Licenses, page 4-33
• Displaying the File Contents of a License, page 4-34
Updating ACE Appliance Licenses
Note This functionality is available for only Admin contexts.
ACE Appliance Device Manager allows you to convert demonstration licenses to permanent licenses
and to upgrade permanent licenses to increase the number of virtual contexts.
Use this procedure to install ACE appliance update licenses.
Assumption
• You have received the proper update software license for the ACE appliance.
• ACE appliance licenses are available on a remote server for importing to the ACE appliance, or you
have received the update software license and have copied the license file to the disk0: filesystem
on the ACE appliance using the copy disk0: CLI command.
• This functionality on the DM requires that SSH is enabled on the appliance. Also, ensure that the
ssh key rsa 1024 force command is applied on the appliance.
Procedure
Step 1 Choose Config > Virtual Contexts.
The All Virtual Contexts table appears.
Step 2 Choose the Admin context with the license you want to update, and then click System > Licenses.
The License Status Table and Installed License Files Table appear listing all installed licenses.
Step 3 Select the license to be updated, and then click Update.
The Update License On The ACE dialog box appears.
Step 4 (Optional) If the update license currently exists on the ACE disk0: file system in Flash memory, do the
following:
a. In the Select an Option to Locate a License File section of the dialog box, click the Select a license
file on the ACE option.
b. In the Select a License File on the Device (disk0) section of the dialog box, choose the name of the
update license file from the drop-down list.
c. Go to Step 10.
Step 5 (Optional) If the update license must be copied to the disk0: file system in Flash memory, in the Select
an Option to Locate a License File section of the dialog box, click the Import a license file from remote
system option and go to Step 6.
Step 6 In the Protocol To Connect To Remote System field, choose the protocol to be used to import the update
license file from the remote server to the ACE as follows:
• If you choose FTP, the User Name and Password fields appear. Go to Step 7.
• If you choose SFTP, the User Name and Password fields appear. Go to Step 7.
• If you choose TFTP, go to Step 8.