Compare your router IOS version to the tested router IOS version for the router model in the Supported Routers list. For example, C800-UNIVERSALK9-M and Version 15.3(2) T in the output of the show version command above match the tested router IOS version for the Cisco 819 router model, c800-universalk9-m z.SPA. Understating Cisco IOS v15 Licenses. Prior to IOS 15, we used to have 8 IOS images Types (Feature set), by the way it was 12 before it comes 8. Any router was coming with IB Base feature set and according to your company needs you can go for advance feature set and replace the IOS, check the below pic.

After looking at the announcement for End of Life support for IOS 12.4 (and you know that IOS 15 is the next version dont you ?) it’s worth looking into the big changes in IOS Feature licensing in case you are not aware of them.

Single Image

IOS 15 is a single software package for the hardware platform that your are using. Now that flash is cheap and large, there doesn’t need to be a different IOS image for the different versions with the advanced features. So you get one software image that has all the features for that platform.

Licensing and Cisco Licensing Manager

You should note that IOS 15 enforces licensing for the Advanced feature sets. That is, you will need to register a license key for every IOS image that needs Advanced IP and receive an activation key to activate those features.

Licensing is basically similar to how the ASA software licenses work today. You need to buy the license, receive the PAK key on a piece of paper, register this on Cisco website to receive an activation key and then enter it into the router. If you want access to the advanced feature sets, you will need to purchase the license and activate it on the router.

Yes, Cisco equipment just got a whole lot harder to manage.

Cisco License Manager

If you are a large company, it is time to implement Cisco Licensing Manager to manage the licenses on all of your equipment. This will allow you to manage and transfer licenses between physical units.

Operational Procedures

Note that when you replace a faulty router, you will have to activate the license on that router as part of the recovery process. So you will need to update your field engineers to make sure that they know how to do this and perform License Transfer Between Two Working Devices or get on the phone to the TAC or use the web to transfer a license.

I can’t see any point in blogging about this in detail, Cisco IOS 15.0 documentation is clear and concise as always. Cisco really does the best documentation.
You can find out more in the†Software Activation Configuration Guide.

Time to go and learn what you need to know.

Prior to IOS 15 , we used to have 8 IOS images, all routers came with IPBase image and according to your needs you can choose what IOS image to install on your router as each image had different features than others as illustrated below.

The universal IOS image is loaded by Cisco manufacturing on all shipped routers. An IOS universal image contains all IOS features. Feature sets in the universal image are unlocked using licensing keys, i.e. the level of IOS functionality available is determined by the license applied to the device. A new license only needs to be applied to upgrade IOS functionality on the router. Maintenance upgrades of IOS, i.e. moving from one IOS universal image version to another, does not require a new licensing key. Reboot of a router is also licensing transparent.

Each device ships with universal image, IPBase, DATA, Unified Communications (UC) and Security (SEC) technology packages are enabled in the universal image via Cisco Software Activation licensing keys.

Cisco Ios Version List

The details of each technology package license can be found in the table below. The new ISR routers also offer a Software Activation feature license and right to use feature licenses. The Software Activation feature licenses use the same Software Activation model as the technology package licenses, while right to use feature licenses are not enforced. Feature licenses work in conjunction with technology package licenses, e.g. the SSLVPN feature license requires a SEC technology package license.

Technology Package	Details	Software Activation Feature Licenses	Right to Use Feature Licenses
IPBaseK9	Offers features found in IPBase IOS image on ISR 1900,2900 and 3900 + Flexible NetFlow + IPV6 parity for IPV4 features present in IPBase. Some of the key feature are AAA BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS, RIP PBR IGMP, Multicast DHCP HSRP, GLBP NHRP HTTP HQF QoS ACL, NBAR GRE CDP, ARP NTP PPP PPPoA PPPoE RADIUS TACACS SCTP SMDS SNMP STP VLAN DTP IGMP Snooping SPAN WCCP ISDN ADSL over ISDN NAT-Basic X.25, RSVP, NTP, Flexible NetFlow etc.	None	None
SECK9	Offers the security features found in the advanced security IOS image on the ISR 1900,2900 and 3900 e.g. IKE v1 / IPsec / PKI, IPsec/GRE, Easy VPN w/ DVTI, DMVPN, Static VTI, Firewall, Network Foundation Protection,GETVPN etc.	SSLVPN (Counted) Intrusion Prevention (Subscription) Content Filtering (Subscription)	None
UC	Offers the UC features found in IPVoice IOS image on the ISR 1900,2900 and 3900 e.g. TDM/PSTN Gateway, Video Gateway[H320/324],Voice Conferencing, Codec Transcoding, RSVP Agent (voice), FAX T.37/38, CAC/QoS, Hoot-n-Holler etc.	Gatekeeper	Land Mobile Radio CME: Voice & Video (Counted) SRST: Voice & Video (Counted) VXML/IVR Gateway (Counted) CUBE [IPIP Gateway] (Counted)
Data	Data features found in SP services and enterprise services IOS image on the ISR 1900,2900 and 3900 e.g. MPLS, BFD, RSVP ,L2VPN, L2TPv3 ,Layer 2 Local Switching , Mobile IP, Multicast Authentication,FHRP-GLBP ,IP SLAs, PfR ,DECnet, RSRB, BIP, DLSw+, FRAS, Token Ring ,ISL, IPX ,STUN, SNTP, SDLC, QLLC etc.	SNA Switching	None

How to get License from Cisco and how to install it in my Router ?

Purchase the software package or feature that you want to install. You receive a PAK with your purchase.

The Product authorization key PAK is provided to you when you order or purchase the right to use a feature set for a particular platform. The PAK serves as a receipt and is used as part of the process to obtain a license

Get the license file using one of these options:

Cisco License Manager, which is a free software application available at http://www.cisco.com/go/clm.
cisco license registration portal http://www.cisco.com/go/license

What you will do is Convert the PAK to a license by entering the PAK and the unique device identifier (UDI) into the CLM or Cisco Product License Registration portal

The UDI is a combination of the product id (PID), the serial number, and the hardware version.
The UDI is printed on a label that is located on the back of every device and also can be known through (CLI) and SNMP

To know what is your UDI , type show license udi as follow

After entering the appropriate information, you will receive an e-mail containing the license information that you can use to install the license

Copy the license file received from the Cisco Product License Registration portal to the appropriate file system on the device.
Click the Install button on the web page.

A Software Activation License is an XML text file with a .lic extension and even can be opened by any text editor.

Using CLI to Manage Licenses

Displaying brief summary about each feature and installation status:

Cisco Ios 15 License Keygen Free

Installing Evaluation License for feature set (technology-package)

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