Update watchguard license

Contact WatchGuard or your WatchGuard reseller for details. Renew Subscription Services. About Feature Keys. All rights reserved. All other tradenames are the property of their respective owners. Submit Search. Account Settings Logout. About Subscription Services Expiration and Renewal Fireware subscription services need regular updates to operate effectively. We recommend that you renew your subscription services before they expire.

Subscription Renewal Reminders The Firebox sends you reminders to renew your subscriptions. You can also configure the Firebox to send you an alert when a subscription is about to expire. Security Service Expiration Behavior When a subscription service expires, that service does not operate, and the configuration options are disabled. Gateway AntiVirus stops detecting and blocking viruses immediately.

If the device attempts a Gateway AntiVirus scan when Gateway AntiVirus is enabled but expired, the device takes the same action as when a scan error occurs, as configured in the AntiVirus proxy action settings. A scan error is also sent to the log file. Gateway AntiVirus configuration options are disabled in Policy Manager, except for the ability to disable Gateway AntiVirus for a policy that has it enabled.

IntelligentAV stops scanning files immediately. IntelligentAV configuration options are disabled in Policy Manager. IPS stops detecting and blocking intrusions immediately.

For Fireware v If your WatchGuard reseller is an MSSP who manages your account, the reseller can activate the renewal on your behalf. To purchase a renewal, contact your WatchGuard reseller. After you purchase the security subscription renewal and activate the license key, you must update the feature key on the Firebox. For more information on feature keys, see About Feature Keys.

Your Firebox gives you reminders to renew your subscriptions when you save changes to a configuration file. WatchGuard System Manager reminds you that your subscription is about to expire 60 days before, 30 days before, 15 days before, and the day before the expiration date.

When your subscriptions expire, you cannot save any changes to your configuration until you either renew or disable the expired subscription. You cannot right-click to paste. If you do not already have your new feature key, you must click Disable even if you plan to renew later. You do not lose your settings if you disable the subscription. To renew with fewer users, purchase a new AuthPoint license with the number of users you want.

When you renew your license with fewer users, we recommend you do this at a time close to your expiration date. If you activate the license key before your expiration date, your user count is reduced immediately. If you have an active subscription license, when you renew or upgrade a term license your subscription user count is automatically updated so that only the users in excess of your termed licenses are billed as subscription users.

When you add users or extend a license, the new license is merged with your active AuthPoint license and the two licenses are co-termed Co-terming is when you consolidate or merge your licenses to synchronize renewal dates. When licenses are co-termed, a new expiration date is calculated based on your updated user count and the term length of the license you activated. If you purchased the same number of users that you currently have, your user count remains the same and your license is extended for the number of years specified in your purchase order.

To renew or modify an existing license, you must first purchase a new AuthPoint license with the number of users you want. Once you have a license key, follow these steps to activate the key and use it to renew or modify an active license. Select Add Users to add the purchased users to your license or select Extend License to extend the renewal date for your license. The discounts are good, but not as deep as the "Red for Red" a WatchGuard device to newer WatchGuard device trade-up program.

However, Red-for-Red is not always available. I moved to pfsense to avoid licensing. I bought netgate appliances with both software and hardware support. Best decision so far.

No, he's right. A firewall isn't a router, it's an anti-router. That you can force it to route by defeating its protection mechanisms doesn't make it a router anymore than a pencil with an eraser on it is an eraser - it's still a pencil, albeit a pencil with an erase function built in. The license renewal is pretty standard with most vendors. If you let maintenance lapse, you have to back pay it to resume it. Otherwise people would not pay for maintenance until they had a problem.

Gregg, you are confusing form and function or noun and verb. Just as a Firewall isnt a router, a L3 switch isnt a router even though it can route. Routing and switching are functions. Thank you all for your comments, and direction.

We will most likely, trade up as suggested and inform end client to keep at least the basic security plan active. SI System Integration d. You don't need to buy for 'years back'.