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XG-HA-Cluster: License on Master after failover - can the former auxilary stay primary?

TobiasGroene

Hi,

I've recently read that, there is an issue with licensing after failover. Could you help me here?

We have a XG-125 Active-Passive Cluster (V19.1 Firmware) and currently the former auxilary is "primary". The former "primary" holds the licenses. Is there any problem with that, do we have to swich the licensed "secondary" to become the "Primary" again? Or is there no problem and the former "auxilary" with no licenses can stay active as "primary".

Thank you very much for your answers!



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    There is no issue in this sense.

    It is quite simple: If you join a HA, the appliance in this situation will sync the license "to the cluster". So to speak, the cluster will hold the license and whatever appliance is active will have the license. 

    This will work for every situation (Active-Passive, Standalone etc). 

    If you disable the HA, the HA will be cleared and the Appliance, which is currently the primary will be active (second node goes into factory reset). In this situation, the appliance will ask the license server, which license it has. If this is the appliance without the license (so the Aux), there will be no license.

    You can check this in MySophos: https://secure2.sophos.com/en-us/mysophos/my-account/network-protection/view-devices

    If you see an potential problem, you can do a license transfer in mySophos. This will seemly transfer the license to your other appliance. 

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    There is no issue in this sense.

    It is quite simple: If you join a HA, the appliance in this situation will sync the license "to the cluster". So to speak, the cluster will hold the license and whatever appliance is active will have the license. 

    This will work for every situation (Active-Passive, Standalone etc). 

    If you disable the HA, the HA will be cleared and the Appliance, which is currently the primary will be active (second node goes into factory reset). In this situation, the appliance will ask the license server, which license it has. If this is the appliance without the license (so the Aux), there will be no license.

    You can check this in MySophos: https://secure2.sophos.com/en-us/mysophos/my-account/network-protection/view-devices

    If you see an potential problem, you can do a license transfer in mySophos. This will seemly transfer the license to your other appliance. 

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