Licensing Terms for SmartUpdate

• Add

  You can add any license that you receive from the User Center to the License & Contract Repository first.

  • You can add the licenses directly from a User Center account.
  • You can add the licenses from a file that you receive from the User Center.
  • You can add the licenses manually by pasting or typing the license details.

  When you add the Local license to the License & Contract Repository, it also attaches it to the Security Gateway with the IP address, for which the license was issued.

• Attach

  You can attach a license from the License & Contract Repository to a managed Security Gateway.

• Detach

  When you detach a license from a managed Security Gateway, you have to uninstall the license from that Security Gateway. If this is a Central license, this operation makes that license in the License & Contract Repository available to other managed Security Gateways.

• Get

  You can add information from your managed Security Gateways about the licenses you installed locally. This updates the License & Contract Repository with all local licenses across the installation. The Get operation is a two-way process that places all locally installed licenses in the License & Contract Repository and removes all locally deleted licenses from the License & Contract Repository.

• Delete

  You can delete a license from the License & Contract Repository.

• Export

  You can export a license from the License & Contract Repository to a file.

• License Expiration

  Licenses expire on a particular date, or never. If a license expires, the applicable products and features stop working on the Check Point computer, to which the license is attached.

• State

  The license state depends on whether the license is associated with a managed Security Gateway in the License & Contract Repository, and whether the license is installed on that Security Gateway. The license state definitions are as follows:

  • Attached indicates that the license is associated with a managed Security Gateway in the License & Contract Repository, and is installed on that Security Gateway.
  • Unattached indicates that the license is not associated with managed Security Gateways in the License & Contract Repository, and is not installed on managed Security Gateways.
  • Assigned is a license that is associated with a managed Security Gateway in the License & Contract Repository, but has not yet been installed on a Security Gateway.
• Upgrade Status

  This is a field in the License & Contract Repository that contains an error message from the User Center when the License Upgrade process fails.

• Central License

  Attach a Central License to the IP address of your Management Server.

• Local License

  A Local License is tied to the IP address of the specific Security Gateway. You can only use a local license with a Security Gateway or a Security Management Server with the same address.

• Multi-License File

  This is a license files that contains more than one license.

  The cplic put, and cplic add commands support these files.

• Certificate Key

  This is a string of 12 alphanumeric characters. The number is unique to each package.

• Features

  This is a character string that identifies the features of a package.

• cplic

  A CLI utility to manage local licenses on Check Point computers.