Cisco Content Security Management Appliances Licensing

Note

From AsynOS 15.5 release onwards, there will be no support for classic licensing for On-Premises users. You will no longer be able to order new feature licenses or renew existing feature licenses in the Classic Licensing mode.

Prerequisite: Make sure you create a smart account in the Cisco Smart Software Manager portal and enable Cisco Smart Software Licensing on your Secure Email and Web Manager. For more information, see Smart Licensing Deployment Guide - https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/esa/esa15-5-1/smart_licensing_deployment_guide/b_ESA_SMA_SL_deployment_guide.html.

From AsyncOS 15.5 release onwards, you can load the license using the loadlicense command only if the license file contains a cloud feature key.

If the license file does not contain a cloud feature key, you cannot load the license, and you will receive a notification message notifying you to retry with a cloud license or use license_smart command to perform Smart Licensing tasks.