Receiving Usage Reports

Check Point provides a Monthly Usage Report by email, which includes this information about Metered Licenses usage:

• Period

  The period of the usage report.

• Certificate Key (CK)

  The license's ID as it appears in the User Center (see Obtaining a Metered License from the User Center). Each CK Certificate Keys (CKs) of Central Licenses in the License Pool. represents a different license. Each license can be used on multiple CloudGuard Security Gateways.

• Tenant Name

  The tenant used to register the Metered License (see Configuring Metered Licenses). Each tenant name represents a different Infinity Portal Account.

• Blades Package

  The Software Blades package as given in the license from User Center, either NGFW, NGTP or NGTX.

• Rate

  The rate as given in the license from User Center, either hourly or monthly.

Each row in the report is an aggregation of all the data collected for each license, in the given period, and for Security Gateways with the same amount of Cores.

Example of a monthly usage report:

Period	CK	Tenant Name	Blades Package	Rate	Cores	Instance	Cores X Time
<Month>-<Year>	11112222AAAA	Customer1	NGFW	Hourly cores	4	3	344
<Month>-<Year>	11112222AAYY	Customer1	NGTX	Hourly cores	4	3	120
<Month>-<Year>	BBBBCCCC333	Customer2	NGTP	Hourly cores	4	2	16
<Month>-<Year>	BBBBCCCC333	Customer2	NGTP	Hourly cores	2	8	16
<Month>-<Year>	9999AAAA1111	Customer3	NGTX	Monthly cores	4	2	8

Explanation of the Monthly Usage Report table above:

Customer1 has two rows, for specific <month>-<year> period values that show:

1. Three active Security Gateway Dedicated Check Point server that runs Check Point software to inspect traffic and enforce Security Policies for connected network resources. instances, each with 4 cores that use the Hourly cores rate and NGFW blades package whose license CK is 11112222AAAA. The total running hours of all Security Gateways equal to 344 Hourly cores.

2. Three active Security Gateway instances, each with 4 cores that use the Hourly cores rate and NGTX blades package whose license CK is 11112222AAYY. The total running hours of all Security Gateways equal to 120 Hourly cores

Customer2 has two rows, for specific <month>-<year> period values that show:

1. Two active Security Gateway instances, each with 4 cores that uses the Hourly cores rate and NGTP blades package whose license CK is BBBBCCCC333. The total running hours of all Security Gateways equal to 16 Hourly cores.

2. Eight active Security Gateway instances, each with 2 cores that uses the Hourly cores rate and NGTP blades package whose license CK is BBBBCCCC333. The total running hours of all Security Gateways equal to 16 Hourly cores.

Customer3, with CK 9999AAAA1111, has a single row for specific <month>-<year> period values, that shows: two active Security Gateway instances, each with 4 cores that uses the Monthly rate and NGTX blades package. The total running Monthly cores equal to 8 Monthly cores.

Notes: If a CloudGuardSecurity Gateway is distributed among multiple Metered Licenses at the same time, it only reports the first one that was given, and only this one is shown in the report. All of the usage time is calculated based on UTC time zone. This means that only data collected between the first and last days of each month in UTC is aggregated for the report. In addition, the division into different months is based on the UTC time.