Working with Licenses

In This Section:

You can manage licenses on your Security Gateways in a few ways.

In SmartConsole you can activate your licenses.
In the Gaia Portal, you can activate, add, or delete your licenses.
In Gaia Clish or the Expert Mode, you can add or delete your licenses with the cplic command.
When Security Gateways are not connected to the Internet, you can add, delete, attach, and detach your licenses in SmartUpdate.
When Security Gateways are connected to the Internet, they are able to get and update their licenses and contracts without SmartUpdate.

Viewing Licenses in SmartConsole

To view license information:

Step	Description
1	In SmartConsole, from the left navigation panel, click Gateways & Servers.
2	From the Columns drop-down list, select Licenses.

You can see these columns:

Column	Description
License Status	The general state of the Software Blade licenses: OK - All the blade licenses are valid. Not Activated - Blade licenses are not installed. This is only possible in the first 15 days after the establishment of the SIC with the Security Management Server. After the initial 15 days, the absence of licenses will result in the blade error message. Error with <number> blade(s) - The specified number of blade licenses are not installed or not valid. Warning with <number> blade(s) - The specified number of blade licenses have warnings. N/A - No available information.
CK	Unique Certificate Key of the license instance.
SKU	Catalog ID from the Check Point User Center.
Account ID	User's account ID.
Support Level	Check Point level of support.
Support Expiration	Date when the Check Point support contract expires.

To view license information for each Software Blade:

Step	Description
1	Select a Security Gateway or a Security Management Server.
2	In the Summary tab below, click the object's License Status (for example: OK). The Device & License Information window opens. It shows basic object information and License Status, license Expiration Date, and important quota information (in the Additional Info column) for each Software Blade. Notes: Quota information, quota-dependent license statuses, and blade information messages are only supported for R80. The tooltip of the SKU is the product name.

Step

Description

Select a Security Gateway or a Security Management Server.

In the Summary tab below, click the object's License Status (for example: OK).

The Device & License Information window opens. It shows basic object information and License Status, license Expiration Date, and important quota information (in the Additional Info column) for each Software Blade.

Notes:

Quota information, quota-dependent license statuses, and blade information messages are only supported for R80.
The tooltip of the SKU is the product name.

The possible values for the Software Blade License Status are:

Status	Description
Active	The Software Blade is active and the license is valid.
Available	The Software Blade is not active, but the license is valid.
No License	The Software Blade is active but the license is not valid.
Expired	The Software Blade is active, but the license expired.
About to Expire	The Software Blade is active, but the license will expire in thirty days (default) or less (7 days or less for an evaluation license).
Quota Exceeded	The Software Blade is active, and the license is valid, but the quota of related objects (gateways, files, virtual systems, and so on, depending on the blade) is exceeded.
Quota Warning	The Software Blade is active, and the license is valid, but the number of objects of this blade is 90% (default) or more of the licensed quota.
N/A	The license information is not available.