Why have I received this mail message when I do not have a heartbeat licence?

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Hi folks, 
 this morning I received this mail message from my XG which I find strange because I do not have heartbeat operational as a home user? 
 'You are receiving this auto-generated message from Sophos Notification system to inform you about your Sophos Security Heartbeat server certificate was about to expire but had been successfully refreshed.' 
 Ian

LuCar Toni · Accepted Answer

Did you test Central for something? Or do you use Central Management + CFR? 
 XG uses the Heartbeat protocol to communicate with the Central platform. 
 And we are using a certificate based approach. So if you connect XG to a Central account, XG will generate a certificate to talk to Central. This will eventually expire and automatically renewal.

emmosophos · Answer

Hello rfcat, 
 Thank you for contacting the Sophos Community! 
 Is your XG registered in Sophos Central? If so, that might be the reason. 
 Regards,

Why have I received this mail message when I do not have a heartbeat licence?

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