https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/Central-Licensing-grace-period/m-p/194008#M5948 <P>Hi</P> <P>We have vcore licenses for some gateways in Azure. All working as expected.</P> <P>We then deployed some test machines in ESX and they are sharing the liceenses from the pool, even though we don't have enough.</P> <P>The license usage report shows the shortfall. My question is how long is the grace period? At some point I assume the test machines will stop working and the licenses will be removed. Any idea how long that takes?</P> <P>thanks</P> Mon, 02 Oct 2023 09:59:57 GMT Scott_Paisley 2023-10-02T09:59:57Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/Central-Licensing-grace-period/m-p/194008#M5948 <P>Hi</P> <P>We have vcore licenses for some gateways in Azure. All working as expected.</P> <P>We then deployed some test machines in ESX and they are sharing the liceenses from the pool, even though we don't have enough.</P> <P>The license usage report shows the shortfall. My question is how long is the grace period? At some point I assume the test machines will stop working and the licenses will be removed. Any idea how long that takes?</P> <P>thanks</P> Mon, 02 Oct 2023 09:59:57 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/Central-Licensing-grace-period/m-p/194008#M5948 Scott_Paisley 2023-10-02T09:59:57Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/Central-Licensing-grace-period/m-p/194014#M5949 <P>Why did you not apply Eval Lics ? There is no grace period afaik for a license used two times, so this is just unsupported...</P> Mon, 02 Oct 2023 11:08:07 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/Central-Licensing-grace-period/m-p/194014#M5949 G_W_Albrecht 2023-10-02T11:08:07Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/Central-Licensing-grace-period/m-p/194017#M5950 <P>It appears to be working as described in the documentation. From the admin guide</P> <P style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 14px; break-inside: avoid; margin: 0.2em 0em; orphans: 3; widows: 3; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><SPAN class="mc-variable Vars_CloudGuard.tp_clgd variable">"CloudGuard</SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN>licenses are attached from the license pool to<SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN class="mc-variable Vars_CloudGuard.tp_clgd variable">CloudGuard</SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN class="mc-variable Vars_Other.tp_gwcap variable">Gateway</SPAN>.</P> <P style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 14px; break-inside: avoid; margin: 0.2em 0em; orphans: 3; widows: 3; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The distribution procedure is permissive.<SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN class="mc-variable Vars_Other.tp_gwscap variable">Gateways</SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN>are issued a license even when the pool no longer has licenses available."</P> <P style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 14px; break-inside: avoid; margin: 0.2em 0em; orphans: 3; widows: 3; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">&nbsp;</P> <P style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 14px; break-inside: avoid; margin: 0.2em 0em; orphans: 3; widows: 3; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The question is, for how long?</P> Mon, 02 Oct 2023 11:55:39 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/Central-Licensing-grace-period/m-p/194017#M5950 Scott_Paisley 2023-10-02T11:55:39Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/Central-Licensing-grace-period/m-p/194026#M5951 <P>I see - you can ask Account Services ! Eval Lics are for 30 days, PnP lics for 14 days...</P> Mon, 02 Oct 2023 12:45:41 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/Central-Licensing-grace-period/m-p/194026#M5951 G_W_Albrecht 2023-10-02T12:45:41Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/Central-Licensing-grace-period/m-p/194065#M5952 <P>Definitely sounds like someone from Account service would know, for sure.</P> <P>Andy</P> Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:17:33 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/Central-Licensing-grace-period/m-p/194065#M5952 the_rock 2023-10-02T18:17:33Z