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Upgrade old company SG appliance to XG home licence

Nico Shipman

The company I work for has recently replaced its UTM9 SG 135w appliance with a new XG 135w appliance.  The old SG 135w appliance has been given to me.

I would like to use the appliance at home but my question is; can I upgrade the SG appliance that was originally registered/licenced to a business to become an XG appliance with a home licence?

I currently have no licences of any kind at all.  Would I first need to obtain an SG home use licence and apply this to the appliance before upgrading it to become an XG? 



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    Hi Nico,

    yes it can be done I did it a few years ago,

    1. register for a home user account and a Free XG License - i'm sure you have done this bit already.

    2. download the Software ISO - this too Slight smile

    3. burn to USB using Rufus (DD Mode, it should prompt you)

    4. boot the SG135 using the keyboard and connected screen.

    the one thing I did note was that the ports all got reversed (i was doing this with v17, so may not happen now), this behaviour is noted on the forum somewhere, not sure where though.

    You may have to plugin to a few of the ports after it has been installed on the SG135 - standard address is 172.16.16.16:4444 - i am sure you know this too..

    I would also build it on the standard config, initially to see if it what you want, the one I used was incredibly slow, but my unit was much older than yours and a different version, I run XG on a 60Gb SSD.

    have fun this is a good learning experience.

  • 0 in reply to Argo

    I think first you must delete all partitions on the SG Box (with a booable USB-Sitck). If not the SG uses its own serial number and the home license has it's own (different) serial number. Next you can do the steps above. 

    Ben

  • 0 in reply to Ben@Network

    hi Ben,

    I understand that these are built on a completely different architecture (do not use the same license file), and when I did this in v17.x it offered to use, or overwrite the partitions on initial system config.

    although it may be different in v18

  • 0 in reply to Argo

    Firstly, thanks everyone for repsonding, especially to Ben and Argo - I got the jist of all your suggestions, although it took me a long while to fill in the finer points as I am not very familiar with this kind of thing.

    Booting to the XG software ISO gave me errors at first, saying that it had detected a hardware appliance and a hardware ISO was needed.  I then tried the hardware ISO but that also failed - I forget the error.  I then tried to go back to UTM 9 ISO but after installing it complained of a missing file and the only option was to reboot.

    Each installation seemed to have done its own thing in terms of overwriting or deleting the original partitions, so taking heed of Ben's comment I thought I would give the XG software ISO another go.  It seems to have worked!  The ports seem ok Argo, just so you know.

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  • 0 in reply to Argo

    Firstly, thanks everyone for repsonding, especially to Ben and Argo - I got the jist of all your suggestions, although it took me a long while to fill in the finer points as I am not very familiar with this kind of thing.

    Booting to the XG software ISO gave me errors at first, saying that it had detected a hardware appliance and a hardware ISO was needed.  I then tried the hardware ISO but that also failed - I forget the error.  I then tried to go back to UTM 9 ISO but after installing it complained of a missing file and the only option was to reboot.

    Each installation seemed to have done its own thing in terms of overwriting or deleting the original partitions, so taking heed of Ben's comment I thought I would give the XG software ISO another go.  It seems to have worked!  The ports seem ok Argo, just so you know.

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