CISCO ASR5K-00-SN01FLEX ASR 5000 Software License

ASR5K-00-SN01FLEX Software Entitlement Identity

ASR5K-00-SN01FLEX 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

Prepare a compliance checkpoint for subscriber-impacting use. Confirm policy owner, legal basis, access control, logging and evidence retention after Cisco confirms the feature. A license purchase alone does not authorize traffic inspection or modification.

Acceptance record for this line

For this exact order line, the accountable reviewer is the Smart Account custodian. The required evidence package combines the redundancy design, node-role mapping and recovery-right confirmation; review it before quote approval. If any identifier, account destination, platform scope or capacity statement conflicts, freeze further rollout until capacity and lifecycle evidence are corrected. 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.

Migration planning

Link the line item to the approved ASR5K migration design, target release and replacement platform. Available inventory does not by itself establish continued support or compatibility with the planned core-network architecture. Set a dated decision for continued use, migration or retirement. Recheck product notices before buying extra capacity because lifecycle conditions can change after a quote is issued.

Support coverage

Verify which support contract covers software assistance, defect handling and entitlement administration. Record the contract owner and escalation route because a software PID does not automatically include every support service. Support ownership should include contract number, covered node and entitlement administrator. Escalation details belong in the operational record, not only in procurement email.

Security review

For encryption, filtering, lawful-intercept or traffic-control functions, obtain the required legal and security approvals before activation. Limit access to entitlement and configuration evidence to the authorized operational teams. Record the authorized business purpose and the teams permitted to view configuration or usage evidence. This control is especially important where the feature affects subscriber traffic or regulated functions.

Operational ownership

Assign an owner for license alarms, capacity consumption, renewal or migration dates and Smart Licensing communication. Add the exact PID to the configuration inventory so later audits do not rely on a generic router asset record. Define alert thresholds and review frequency. Close stale or duplicate entitlements so the inventory reflects what the platform can actually use.

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-SN01DIRT software entitlement
• ASR5K-00-CS01E-K9 software entitlement
• ASR5K-00-CS01I-K9 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