Reasons for Choosing Cisco AnyConnect: Cisco Support and partners are very skilled over it. Reviewer Source. Source: Capterra. February 19, 2021. Automotive, 1001-5000 employees. Used the software for: 1-2 years. Cisco AnyConnect 4.0 goes well beyond traditional secure access offering a wide range of endpoint security services and streamlined IT operations all from a single unified agent. Cisco AnyConnect includes enhanced VPN services by offering customers the ability to achieve tighter security controls while enabling direct, secure, per-application. Starting Price: Not provided by vendor $9.99/month. Best For: Designed for small to large businesses, it is a VPN solution that provides multi-factor authentication for endpoint devices. SafeNet VPN is ideal for everyday iPhone and IPad users concerned for their privacy and data safety. AnyConnect is relatively simple to use - connect to your local wifi and then connect to the VPN. It's pretty foolproof to actually getting logged in. Cons: I'm not sure if this is unique to my company, but there's recently (within the last 6-8 months) been a change where AnyConnect needs to be reset/re-connected every 24 hours. Cisco AnyConnect 4.0 goes well beyond traditional secure access offering a wide range of endpoint security services and streamlined IT operations all from a single unified agent. Cisco AnyConnect includes enhanced VPN services by offering customers the ability to achieve tighter security controls while enabling direct, secure, per-application.
This post will try to help understand the differences between anyconnect premium and anyconnect essentials licenses.
For a more complete understanding of all of the licensing on the Cisco ASA see this post.
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Note: Cisco ASA 8.3+ no longer requires both the Active and Standby unit to each have a license. The active license is shared between the failover units. This should not be confused with the ‘shared premium license’.
Note: Cisco Secure Desktop is now deprecated. Cisco has stopped development for it.
Source of this image: Cisco’s Partner Education center – ASA Licensing Webex.
To enable AnyConnect essentials:
Purchase the license (L-ASA-AC-E-55xx= it costs $100-$500).
Apply the license to the ASA using the activation-key command. This does not require a reboot.
Apply the config:
Now your firewall will be licensed to have up to however many connections that are on the “Total VPN Connections”. For instance if your show version says this:
You will now be licensed to accommodate 250 anyconnect connectionns.
To enable AnyConnect Premium
Buy the license. You must purchase a license for a specific number of users (L-ASA-SSL-10= costs around $800).
Apply the license to the ASA using the activation-key command. This does not require a reboot.
Configure the ASA:
If you’ve already licensed this ASA for Essentials in the past then it will still show as an enabled license.
Once this is complete your ASA will be licensed to accept however many Anyconnect connections as you have Premium Licenses for. So if your show version looks like this:
Then your ASA can have 10 Anyconnect or webvpn users at once.
Note: The name “Anyconnect Premium” has changed a lot in different versions. Here are the different naming schemes.
- 7.1(1) known as “ssl vpn”
- 8.2(1) name changed to “anyconnect premium ssl vpn edition”
- 8.3(1) name changed to “anyconnect premium ssl vpn”
- 8.4(1) name changed to “anyconnect premium”
AnyConnect for Mobile
This license allows AnyConnect connections from mobile devices. There is current support for iPhone, iPad, Android version 4.0 and up, rooted Androids and Samsung Galaxy’s.
The mobile license is on or off and not tied to a number of users. It costs between $100-$500.
This license is applied by simply using the activation-key command. A reboot is not needed. There is no further configuration needed after that.
Advanced Endpoint Assessment
Advanced Endpoint Assessment includes all of the Endpoint Assessment features, and lets you configure an attempt to update noncompliant computers to meet version requirements.
This license is applied by simply using the activation-key command. A reboot is not needed.
Shared Premium License
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New to ASA 8.3+ code is the ability to share licensing. This is only for Anyconnect Premium. It allows for one ASA to have a shared license which other ASAs can use.
This configuration requires two extra licenses. A license is needed for the shared server which indicates how many shared licenses there are and there also is a need for any participating ASAs.
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After buying a shared participant license and applying it with the activation-key command, configure it with a command similar to this:
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The show version on the participant ASA will show this:
Now buy the shared premium license for the server for the amount of users you wish to have.
Apply the license using the activation-key command. Then apply the following config:
The show version at this point looks like this:
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If the license count isn’t going up when joining a shared pool here are a couple of other settings that may help you:
These two settings will limit how many sessions this host or the other hosts can use. This may be set already and limiting what is usable.