The license update feature enables the EX appliance with basic network connectivity to automatically download licenses from the DTI network and install them. This feature provides the following benefits:
Minimal initial configuration—The license update feature is enabled with the configuration jump-start wizard during the initial system configuration. This means the feature can be fully functional after the jump-start wizard is completed.
Simplified license management—There is no need to contact Trellix for license keys when new features are added or when licenses are renewed, because the new licenses are automatically downloaded and installed.
Scalability—Organizations, such as those with a large number of appliances, can benefit from all appliances being updated automatically, instead of entering license keys manually on each appliance, one at a time.
You can enable automatic license updates on the EX appliance using the configuration wizard or the CLI.
How it works
The license update feature, if enabled, downloads and applies licenses to which the customer is contractually entitled. If an active license for a feature is already installed and the licensing service downloads an active license for the feature, the installed license is replaced by the downloaded license only if the downloaded license offers new functionality, a later expiry date, or was part of a more recent customer order. This process is automatic; however, you can also explicitly update licenses.
The license update feature will not:
Install a downloaded license that would cause a feature to become temporarily unlicensed.
Remove a feature license if there is no newly ordered replacement for it.
If you experience issues with a license retrieved from an automatic update, you can use the command no fenet license update enable to disable the automatic update process and you can use the command license install <cr> to manually install your older license key or keys.
You can synchronize the system time to the DTI server time to prevent a feature from being temporarily unlicensed due to time differences. This is a one-time synchronization, but it can be repeated.
When an appliance is managed by the Central Management System appliance, the Central Management System appliance acts as a proxy between the managed appliance and the licensing service. The license update feature must still be enabled on the managed appliance. In such an integrated environment, the Central Management System appliance acts as the DTI server for the managed appliances, so the licensing service uses the Central Management System DTI network credentials instead of the appliance's credentials.