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General question about licensing

Dear all,

I'm completely new on this Sophos UTM stuff and have a question about licensing in general.

Is it really necessary to buy a licence for each network device that is detected by the UTM?

I'm getting this Email from the UTM daily:


This email was sent by your Sophos UTM software to notify you that you have exceeded 110% of the user count for your license!



Licensed Users/IPs: 100

Counted  Users/IPs: 209



All additional users/ips except the ones listed below will be blocked.

A 10% tolerance has already been deducted.

Do I really have to buy 209 licenses?

Thank you in advance!

Best regards
Markus

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0 Scott_Klassen over 9 years ago

The user count for the license must be equal to the number of IPs that will be passing traffic through the UTM (IPv4 and IPv6 are counted separately). If you have 209 workstations/laptops/servers, then you will need a license with an IP count that reflects that.

If you have devices that do not need internet access, remove the default gateway on those devices and they will not pass traffic through the UTM anymore.

FYI, IPs in the license count list will drop off after one week of not being used anymore.

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0 m.sebastian over 9 years ago in reply to Scott_Klassen

Thank you Scott for your fast reply.
I will order the missing licenses soon.

Best regards
Markus
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0 Scott_Klassen over 9 years ago

Happy to help sebastian

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0 BAlfson over 9 years ago

Hi, Markus, and welcome to the User BB!

With the new licensing model, you can upgrade from 100 to 250 IPs in exchange for reducing the remaining subscription time by half. Before doing that, ask your reseller for a demo 250-IP license and try Scott's suggestions for reducing your IP count. You also should ask your reseller if it might make sense to replace your software subscription with one of the new SG appliances as the hardware license is limited only by the power of the device, not IPs.

Cheers - Bob

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0 m.sebastian over 9 years ago in reply to BAlfson

Thank you Bob, I will check this out with our reseller.

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Markus
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