[rancid] Re: Cisco PIX / ASA Activation key ?

[Sam Munzani]

I understand your point and it saves hassle. However if you request 
license key again from CCO login, it doesn't cost anything. It an 
automated process that emails you your license key(whatever you paid for 
as per their database). I had such case in past and all I had to do was 
request a 3DES key from the CCO URL below.
http://www.cisco.com/go/license

But again, if you had it backed up, you could refer to rancid config 
file for this key since its part of the "show ver" command rancid does.

Thanks,
Sam
>
> Hi
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>  The reason for my question is that I just had an ASA5505, which (for 
> some weird reason) corrupted the flash drive, so I had to 
> reformat/initialize it. When booting the device, the activation key 
> was zeroized...  Not a problem for the specific device, since it is a 
> 10-user without any additional features... But it would have been 
> disappointing, if it had been an unlimited users version, maybe with 
> the software that also allows trunking etc (since there's a cost for 
> the software license)..
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> Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards
>
> *Brian Ipsen*
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> *From:* Sam Munzani [mailto:smunzani at comcast.net]
> *Sent:* 29. januar 2008 18:13
> *To:* Regnar Bang Lyngsø
> *Cc:* Brian Ipsen; rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net; 
> rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> *Subject:* Re: [rancid] Re: Cisco PIX / ASA Activation key ?
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> Do you ever wonder why in the world you care about backing up the 
> activation keys? Its not something that gets lost how many times you 
> wipe your firewall config. The old key doesn't do you any good on 
> replacement hardware if your hardware is dead and you need it 
> replaced. In my mind, its useless information and one should not care 
> about it.
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> Don't get me wrong here. The output of "show version" has value here 
> because it gives a lot of other valuable info. e.g. uptime, last 
> configuration modification timestamp etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
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> rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net <mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net> wrote on 29-01-2008 12:20:15:
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>      Looking through the code, I can see, that there are something 
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>     listed with activations keys ? but these are not listed as comments 
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>     in my PIX/ASA configuration dumps? 
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> Using which version of rancid? Which PIX version?
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> On PIX 6.3:
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> !RANCID-CONTENT-TYPE: cisco
> !This PIX has an Unrestricted (UR) license.
> !Key: 0xaaaaaaaa 0xaaaaaaaa 0xaaaaaaaa 0xaaaaaaaa 
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> Rancid parses the information from the command "show version". Is the 
> activation code listed as "Activation Key: 0xaaaaaaaa 0xaaaaaaaa 
> 0xaaaaaaaa 0xaaaaaaaa" when issuing "show version" on your 
> platform/software version?
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> Regards,
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