CISCO ASR5K-00-CS01LASR ASR 5000 Software License

ASR5K-00-CS01LASR Software Entitlement Identity

ASR5K-00-CS01LASR is a Cisco ASR 5000 / StarOS software-license order code. It is not an ASR chassis or a physical WAN router. This page must be used to verify a software entitlement, not to select ports, power supplies, airflow, rack hardware or cabling.

Cisco's current public ASR5K software end-of-life table does not provide an exact-description row for this PID. The code is therefore retained without expanding its acronym or claiming a feature or capacity that Cisco has not confirmed in the public source.

What this order does not include

No ASR 5000 chassis, packet-processing card, interface module, cable, power component, rack accessory or physical appliance is included by this software PID. Hardware availability and compatibility must be handled as separate order lines.

Exact feature and capacity evidence

The exact feature expansion and capacity are deliberately not inferred from the PID tokens. Require a Cisco sales record, entitlement document or official product notice that repeats the complete code before approval.

PID-specific procurement case

Use a two-person acronym review for this order. One reviewer obtains the Cisco-backed feature expansion; the second compares it with the full PID and target software inventory. Any disagreement leaves the line unapproved rather than resolved by interpreting the code.

Acceptance record for this line

For this exact order line, the accountable reviewer is the service assurance lead. The required evidence package combines the Cisco sales-order line, entitlement notification and target-account receipt; review it during handover. If any identifier, account destination, platform scope or capacity statement conflicts, escalate the mismatch to the platform owner and authorized source. Close the record only when another engineer can reproduce the entitlement decision from the stored evidence without relying on the product-page wording.

Entitlement identity

Require the Cisco quotation and entitlement record to repeat the complete PID, quantity and commercial term. Reject a line that shortens the code or replaces it with a family label because adjacent ASR5K licenses can authorize different functions and capacities. The approver should sign the exact order string and retain the Cisco source used to interpret it. If the source and quotation disagree, stop release and ask Cisco to resolve the discrepancy.

Installed release evidence

Record the StarOS release, platform identifier and current software inventory before ordering. The receiving owner should compare the new authorization with that baseline and retain the post-install license output instead of treating an order confirmation as activation evidence. The baseline should include command date, node role and software build. Repeat the capture after activation so the change can be reviewed independently of the sales paperwork.

Capacity boundary

Do not infer a session count from price or from a neighboring PID. Where Cisco publishes a capacity in the exact description, preserve that unit in the order and acceptance record; otherwise obtain a Cisco-backed capacity statement before purchase. Capacity acceptance should use the same unit Cisco uses for that PID. A session, subscriber, SAAU, system or chassis entitlement must not be converted into another measure without written vendor guidance.

Environment mapping

Map the entitlement to the target chassis or software instance, service context and responsible network function. An unassigned license line creates no operational value and is difficult to validate during renewal or migration. The mapping should survive staff changes: include node, service, account, environment and owner. Update it whenever the licensed workload moves.

Audit retention

Store the quote, entitlement notification, Smart Account transaction, activation output and acceptance result under one reference. Keep the exact PID searchable so an auditor can distinguish it from failover and different-capacity variants. Retain machine-readable outputs as well as screenshots. The record should let another engineer prove what was purchased, where it landed and whether it was accepted.

Decommission control

When the related service is retired, remove or reassign the entitlement only through Cisco-supported procedures. Preserve the final license state and migration approval so unused rights are not mistaken for active capacity. Close monitoring and capacity records when a license is retired. Keep the final evidence with the migration project to prevent the same PID from being counted twice.

Lifecycle and migration check

Do not transfer the bulletin's dates from a neighboring ASR5K PID to this exact code. Ask Cisco or the authorized source to confirm lifecycle, migration and support status in the quotation, then retain that evidence with the entitlement record.

Related ASR 5000 license records

• ASR5K-00-CS10L2LN software entitlement
• ASR5K-00-CS01MPLS software entitlement
• ASR5K-00-CS01ICFP software entitlement

Official Cisco references

• Cisco ASR5K software end-of-life announcement and PID table
• Cisco ASR 5500 Smart Licensing administration guide
• Cisco ASR 5000 Series support portal