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June 29, 2022

Technical Tip: How to Manually restore FortiGate license in CLI

  • June 29, 2022
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Description This article describes how air-gap environments, physically isolated or not connected to the Internet, FortiGuard packages can be manually uploaded to the FortiGate in the CLI, as well as the GUI.
Scope FortiGate Update.
Solution

To manually upload FortiGate licenses in the CLI:

 

execute restore manual-license {ftp | tftp} <license file name> <server> [args]

 

<protocol>:

  • ftp: Restore license from the FTP server.
  • tftp: Restore license from TFTP server.

 

<license file name>:

License file name(path) on the remote server.

 

<server>[:ftp port]:

The FTP server IPv4, IPv6, or FQDN can be attached to a port.

 

<Enter>|<user>:

FTP usernames may be needed.

 

<passed>:

FTP password.

 

Example:


FortiGate (global) # execute restore manual-license ftp FG00000001.lic 10.0.1.1 admin password

This operation will overwrite the current license and reboot the system!
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