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November 28, 2022

Technical Tip: VM shows 'License status: Invalid Copy'

  • November 28, 2022
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Description This article describes the issue when a VM installation shows 'License Status: Invalid Copy'.
Scope FortiOS 5.x, 6.x and 7.x.
Solution

When in the output of the command 'get system status' the License Status shows 'Invalid Copy', check on the visualization software to manually assign a UUID.

 

UUID is a unique ID generated by a VM instance

 

diag hard sysinfo vm full

 

UUID: 00000000000000000000000000000000

 

Check what UUID assigned to the VM

 

Wait for 24 hours as the license server may show an Invalid Copy license if the same license is used in multiple devices.

 

Once new VMs are deployed, use the below commands to verify the UUID.

 

diag hard sysinfo vm full
fnsysctl cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid