Licenses

Licenses are required for all Cisco products. The following types of product licenses vary depending on the Cisco product:

Term Licenses-Licenses that automatically expire after a set amount of time: one year, three years, or whatever term was purchased.
Perpetual Licenses-Licenses that do not expire.
Demo Licenses-Licenses that expire after 60 days. Demo licenses are not intended for production use.
Reporting only licenses-Licenses that are zero-dollar base and bundled with the hardware. Once a device registers and reports the use of these reporting only licenses, CSSM will begin to show consumption of such licenses in the SA/VA to which the device is registered. Please note: CSSM will always show purchased quantity for such licenses equal to the in-use quantity and there will never be a surplus of reporting only licenses in the inventory.