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Understanding Software Licenses for EX Series Switches

Purchasing a Software Feature License

The following sections list features that require separate licenses. To purchase a software license, contact your Juniper Networks sales representative (https://www.juniper.net/us/en/contact-us/sales-offices). You will be asked to supply the chassis serial number of your switch; you can obtain the serial number by running the show chassis hardware command.

Note: You are required to provide a 12-digit serial number when purchasing a license for an XRE200 External Routing Engine in an EX8200 Virtual Chassis. The serial number listed on the XRE200 External Routing Engine serial ID label is 16 digits long. Use the last 12 digits of the 16-digit serial number to purchase the license. You can use the show chassis hardware command output to display the 12-digit serial number of the XRE200 External Routing Engine to use when you purchase the license.

Features Requiring a License on EX2200 Switches

• Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
• Connectivity fault management (IEEE 802.1ag)
• IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) version 1 (IGMPv1), IGMPv2, and IGMPv3
• OSPFv1/v2 (with four active interfaces)
• Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) dense mode, PIM source-specific mode, PIM sparse mode
• Q-in-Q tunneling (IEEE 802.1ad)
• Real-time performance monitoring (RPM)
• Virtual Router
• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)

Table 1 lists the EFLs that you can purchase for EX2200 switch models. If you have the license, you can run all of the above-mentioned enhanced software features on your EX2200 switch.

Features Requiring a License on EX3300 Switches

Two types of licenses are available on Juniper Networks EX3300 Ethernet Switches: enhanced feature licenses (EFLs) and advanced feature licenses (AFLs).

• Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
• IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) version 1 (IGMPv1), IGMPv2, and IGMPv3
• IPv6 routing protocols: Multicast Listener Discovery version 1 and 2 (MLD v1/v2), OSPFv3, PIM multicast, VRRPv6, virtual router support for unicast and filter-based forwarding (FBF)
• OSPFv1/v2
• Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) dense mode, PIM source-specific mode, PIM sparse mode
• Q-in-Q tunneling (IEEE 802.1ad)
• Virtual Router
• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)

Table 2 lists the EFLs that you can purchase for EX3300 switch models. If you have the license, you can run all of the above-mentioned enhanced software features on your EX3300 switch.

• BGP/MBGP
• IPv6 routing protocols: IPv6 BGP and IPv6 for MBGP
• Virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) BGP

Table 3 lists the AFLs that you can purchase for EX3300 switch models. For EX3300 switches, you must purchase and install a corresponding EFL along with the AFL in order to enable the advanced license features. If you have both these licenses, you can run all of the above-mentioned advanced software features on your EX3300 switch.

Features Requiring a License on EX3200, EX4200, EX4500, EX4550, EX6200, EX8200, and EX9200 Switches

• Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and multiprotocol BGP (MBGP)
• Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS)
• IPv6 routing protocols: IS-IS for IPv6, IPv6 BGP, IPv6 for MBGP
• Logical systems (available only on EX9200 switches)
• MPLS with RSVP-based label-switched paths (LSPs) and MPLS-based circuit cross-connects (CCCs) (Not supported on EX9200 switches)

• Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
• Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS)
• IPv6 routing protocols: IS-IS for IPv6, IPv6 BGP

Table 4 lists the AFLs that you can purchase for EX3200, EX4200, EX4500, EX4550, EX6200, EX8200, and EX9200 switches. If you have the license, you can run all of the above-mentioned advanced software features on your EX3200, EX4200, EX4500, EX4550, EX6200, EX8200, or EX9200 switch.

License Warning Messages

For using features that require a license, you must install and configure a license key. To obtain a license key, use the contact information provided in your certificate.

If you have not purchased the AFL or EFL and installed the license key, you receive warnings when you try to commit the configuration:

[edit protocols]
  'bgp'
    warning: requires 'bgp' license
error: commit failed: (statements constraint check failed)

The system generates system log (syslog) alarm messages notifying you that the feature requires a license—for example:

Sep  3 05:59:11   craftd[806]:  Minor alarm set, BGP Routing Protocol usage requires a license
Sep  3 05:59:11   alarmd[805]: Alarm set: License color=YELLOW, class=CHASSIS, reason=BGP Routing Protocol usage requires a license
Sep  3 05:59:11   alarmd[805]: LICENSE_EXPIRED: License for feature bgp(47) expired

Output of the show system alarms command displays the active alarms:

1 alarm currently active
Alarm time               Class  Description
2009-09-03 06:00:11 UTC  Minor  BGP Routing Protocol usage requires a license