Description

This article describes different outputs to check if the extreme license is installed successfully on SRX3k platforms.

Solution

Following commands can be used to verify the successful installation of extreme license on SRX3k platforms.

(I) Issue show system license command to check on the installed licenses

root@srx> show system license                      
License usage: 
                                 Licenses     Licenses    Licenses    Expiry
  Feature name                       used    installed      needed 
  full-cp-key                           0            1           0    2012-11-27 04:00:00 MSK

Licenses installed: 
  License identifier: JUNOSXXXXX
  License version: 2
  Valid for device: AAXXXXXXXX
  Features:
    full-cp-key      - Expanded CP performance and capacity              <<<<<<<<<<< Notice here.
      date-based, 2011-09-28 04:00:00 MSK - 2012-11-27 04:00:00 MSK

(II) The first installed SPU will start to function as a full CP rather than Cp-Flow (SPU/CP combo) as shown in following show chassis hardware command outputs

Before the installation of license:
root@srx> show chassis hardware detail no-forwarding

FPC 1            REV 13   750-016077   AABZ3566          SRX3k SPC
  PIC 0                   BUILTIN      BUILTIN           SPU Cp-Flow  <<<<<<<<
FPC 2            REV 13   750-016077   AABZ3381          SRX3k SPC
  PIC 0                   BUILTIN      BUILTIN           SPU Flow

After the installation of license :
root@srx> show chassis hardware detail no-forwarding

FPC 1            REV 13   750-016077   AABZ3559          SRX3k SPC
  PIC 0                   BUILTIN      BUILTIN           SPU Cp       <<<<<<<<
FPC 2            REV 13   750-016077   AABZ3368          SRX3k SPC
  PIC 0                   BUILTIN      BUILTIN           SPU Flow

(III) Show chassis fpc pic-status command can also be used to check that the first SPU is starting to show as SPU CP
root@srx> show chassis fpc pic-status 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Slot 1   Online       SRX3k SPC
  PIC 0  Online       SPU Cp  <<<<<< 
Slot 2   Online       SRX3k SPC
  PIC 0  Online       SPU Flow

(IV) Increased total session capacity can be noticed below.

Before the installation of license:
root@srx> show security flow cp-session summary 
Valid sessions: 121295
Pending sessions: 0
Invalidated sessions: 2238000
Sessions in other states: 0
Total sessions: 2359295
Maximum sessions: 2359296     <<<< Notice the initial number.
Maximum inet6 sessions: 1179648

After the installation of license :
sevgen@FW_Juniper_2> show security flow cp-session summary 
Valid sessions: 274758
Pending sessions: 13242
Invalidated sessions: 26277
Sessions in other states: 0
Total sessions: 314277
Maximum sessions: 6291456    <<<<< Notice the increased number.
Maximum inet6 sessions: 3145728
 (V) show log chassisd shows that the license is installed.
 
CP session license message: Received license "installation" event for feature 68
CP session license message: Feature 68 is time-based
CP session license message: 4064635 seconds remaining for feature 68
session license message: Valid time-based feature 68
License install event
CP session license installed, reboot is required for this to take effect

Please note that extreme license needs to be installed on both nodes of a srx cluster followed by a reboot in order for license to take effect.

Modification History

2020-07-14: Archived.