Cisco ASA 5505 License Upgrade

There are several license options for the Cisco ASA 5505 firewall as shown below:

Description	Performance	Part Number
Cisco ASA 5505 10 User Firewall Edition Bundle Includes: 10 users, 8-port Fast Ethernet switch with 2 Power over Ethernet ports, 10 IPsec VPN peers, 2 SSL VPN peers, Triple Data Encryption Standard/Advanced Encryption Standard (3DES/AES) license	• 150 Mbps Firewall • 100 Mbps IPsec VPN	ASA5505-BUN-K9
Cisco ASA 5505 10 User Firewall Edition Bundle Includes: 10 users, 8-port Fast Ethernet switch with 2 Power over Ethernet ports, 10 IPsec VPN peers, 2 SSL VPN peers, Data Encryption Standard (DES) license	• 150 Mbps Firewall • 100 Mbps IPsec VPN	ASA5505-K8
Cisco ASA 5505 50 User Firewall Edition Bundle Includes: 50 users, 8-port Fast Ethernet switch with 2 Power over Ethernet ports, 10 IPsec VPN peers, 2 SSL VPN peers, 3DES/AES license	• 150 Mbps Firewall • 100 Mbps IPsec VPN	ASA5505-50-BUN-K9
Cisco ASA 5505 Unlimited User Firewall Edition Bundle Includes: Unlimited users, 8-port Fast Ethernet switch with 2 Power over Ethernet ports, 10 IPsec VPN peers, 2 SSL VPN peers, 3DES/AES license	• 150 Mbps Firewall • 100 Mbps IPsec VPN	ASA5505-UL-BUN-K9
Cisco ASA 5505 Security Plus Firewall Edition Bundle Includes: Unlimited users, 8-port Fast Ethernet switch with 2 Power over Ethernet ports, 25 IPsec VPN peers, 2 SSL VPN peers, DMZ support, Stateless Active/Standby high availability, Dual ISP support, 3DES/AES license	• 150 Mbps Firewall • 100 Mbps IPsec VPN	ASA5505-SEC-BUN-K9

A very common scenario for a small business is to initially order a 10 user license and then upgrade to 50 users as the company expands. You need to order via your local Cisco representative a 10-to-50 user license upgrade. The Cisco reseller will request to have the ASA 5505 serial number of your firewall which you can find by executing the “show version” command. After that, the Cisco reseller will provide you with a license key which is a long hexadecimal string (e.g e02888da 4ba7bed6 f1c123ae ffd8624e).

To configure the new license key use the following command:

Cisco-ASA(config)# activation-key Hex-activation-key
Cisco-ASA(config)# exit
Cisco-ASA# wr mem
Cisco-ASA# reload

After the firewall reboots, run the “show version” command to verify that the license features have been upgraded. The same procedure works also for the other Cisco ASA models.

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