Cisco software licensing consists of processes and components to activate Cisco IOS software feature sets by obtaining and validating Cisco software licenses.

You can enable licensed features and store license files in the bootflash of your router. Licenses pertain to consolidated packages, technology packages, or individual features.

The IR1800 uses Enhanced Smart Licensing, which is discussed in detail in the next chapter.

To obtain software images for the router, go to: https://software.cisco.com/download/home/286200112

Note	All of the IOS-XE feature set may not apply to the IR1800. Some features may not have been implemented yet, or are not appropriate for this platform.

An image-based license is used to help bring up all the subsystems that correspond to a license. This license is enforced only at boot time.

One of the following image-based licenses can be pre-installed on the IR1800 router:

• Network-Essentials

• Network-Advantage

Note	Details of the Network-Essentials and Network-Advantage contents can be found in the product data sheet.

The Network-Essentials technology package includes the baseline features. It also supports security features.

The Network-Essentials_npe technology package (npe = No Payload Encryption) includes all the features in the Network-Essentials technology package without the payload encryption functionality. This is to fulfill export restriction requirements. The Network-Essentials_npe is available only in the Network-Essentials_npe image. The difference in features between the Network-Essentials package and the Network-Essentials_npe package is therefore the set of payload encryption features such as IPsec and Secure VPN.

The Network-Advantage technology package includes all crypto features.

The Network-Advantage_npe package (npe = No Payload Encryption) includes all the features in the Network-Advantage technology package without the payload-encryption functionality. This is to fulfill export restriction requirements. The Network-Advantage_npe package is available only in the Network-Advantage_npe image. The difference in features between the Network-Advantage package and the Network-Advantage_npe package is therefore the set of payload-encryption-enabling features such as IPsec and Secure VPN.

When the device boots up with Cisco IOS XE image for the first time, the device checks the installed version of the ROMMON, and upgrades if the system is running an older version. During the upgrade, do not power cycle the device. The system automatically power cycles the device after the new ROMMON is installed. After the installation, the system will boot up with the Cisco IOS XE image as normal.

Note	When the device boots up for first time and if the device requires an upgrade, the entire boot process may take several minutes. This process will be longer than a normal boot due to the ROMMON upgrade.

The following example illustrates the boot process of a consolidated package:

Router# configure terminal
 Router(config)#boot system bootflash:/ir1800-universalk9.17.06.01prd18.SPA.bin
Router(config)#config-register 0x2102
Router(config)#exit
*Nov  7 00:07:06.784: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by console

Router#
Router#show run | inc license
license udi pid IR1800-K9 sn FCW2150TH0F
license boot level network-advantage
Router#

Router#reload ?
  /noverify  Don't verify file signature before reload.
  /verify    Verify file signature before reload.
  at         Reload at a specific time/date
  cancel     Cancel pending reload
  in         Reload after a time interval
  pause      Pause during reload
  reason     Reload reason
  <cr>       <cr>

Router#reload /verify

System configuration has been modified. Save? [yes/no]: yes
Building configuration...

[OK]
*Nov  7 00:08:48.101: %SYS-2-PRIVCFG_ENCRYPT: Successfully encrypted private config file
Verifying file integrity of bootflash:/ir1800-universalk9.17.06.01prd18.SPA.bin...........
....................................

Embedded Hash   SHA1 : B0315BDC4F545D624BB128CE0FFAA468E6EF7587
Computed Hash   SHA1 : B0315BDC4F545D624BB128CE0FFAA468E6EF7587
Starting image verification
Hash Computation:    100%Done!
Computed Hash   SHA2: 03febcc07fbeadeed664f2f5ef87f6c3
                      5b343e6f7aecdd70e50e5203909aec8f
                      3d276529d2a6af6859d4c77237f812d5
                      0da93678edc942c8874edca2d5224101

Embedded Hash   SHA2: 03febcc07fbeadeed664f2f5ef87f6c3
                      5b343e6f7aecdd70e50e5203909aec8f
                      3d276529d2a6af6859d4c77237f812d5
                      0da93678edc942c8874edca2d5224101

Digital signature successfully verified in file bootflash:/ir1800-universalk9.16.10.01.SPA.bin
Signature Verified

Proceed with reload? [confirm]<Enter>

*Jul  9 06:43:37.910: %SYS-5-RELOAD: Reload requested by console. Reload Reason: Reload Command. Jul  9 14:43:59.134: %PMAN-5-EXITACTION: R0/0: pvp: Process manager is exiting: process exit with reload chassis code

watchdog watchdog0: watchdog did not stop!
reboot: Restarting system


 
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