

The server maintains the shared licenses and issues them to participants as necessary. Other ASA devices that terminate An圜onnect Premium sessions become shared licensing participants.

To utilize a shared license pool for An圜onnect Premium sessions, you need to designate one Cisco ASA in the network as the shared licensing server. Instead of obtaining a tiered An圜onnect Premium Peers capacity license to cover the worst-case scenario for each Cisco ASA in your network, you have the option of configuring your devices to share a pool of such licenses and request premium VPN session capacities as needed. Even though individual appliances may reach the maximum expected number of concurrent VPN sessions at different times, it is unlikely that all of them will always remain at the peak load.

More information about this product (PDF) is available on the Cisco website.It may become cost prohibitive to obtain multiple separate An圜onnect Premium Peers licenses if you manage a large number of Cisco ASA appliances that terminate SSL VPN, Clientless SSL VPN, and IPsec IKEv1-based remote-access VPN sessions.

The L-AC-APX-LIC= / L-AC-APX-5Y-S2 is an An圜onnect Apex SSL VPN subscription license for Cisco ASA 5500 or 5500-X Series security appliances.
