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Catalin_Patrascu
New Member
September 5, 2014
Question

What happend when licence expired

  • September 5, 2014
  • 12 replies
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Hello! Last year we buy FG100D with 1 year subscription. Today the licence expired and computer under web contend filter policy cannot acces some website, displaying the message that Licence is Expired. If I do not buy subscription can not use the web filter function? Thank you!

    12 replies

    Jan_Scholten
    New Member
    September 5, 2014
    You can' t use Webfilter and so on and you don' t get newer AV/IPS Signatures (But the old one keep working).
    emnoc
    New Member
    September 5, 2014
    let provide more details . All fortiguard service will cease to update and things like webfilter and categories will NOT work 100% correctly. If my memory serve me right of you enable webfilter and category on an " unlicensed" fortigate you will get a warning of traffic being potentially blocked if you select categories The IPS will continue to function with the last installed IPS-DB. You can always manually update the IPS-signature DB if you had access & the same for AV, but that would not be un-ethical. With both IPS and url-filtering, you can write custom rules and apply those and have limited protection. Email AS rating will also not work. So back to your problem, you probably have a webfilter policy in placed. You will need to remove ALL webfiltering from any security profile or if you have any custom url filtering, you just uncheck the category box. btw: I manage a private 1st grade school like that, they have a few FGT models with no licensing but only need access to a few education website. So we listed all URL for access in our custom filter.
    sw2090
    SuperUser
    SuperUser
    September 3, 2018

    In Fact if your License is no longer valid the webfilter will still function but will block everything until it is either removed from the policy (like said below - utm profile) or gets a valid license und has afterwards successfully retreaved the license state from Fortinet.

    I cannot say anything about the other UTM Filters since I'm not using them here atm.

    If your support license is no longer valid you won't get anymore support from TAC but it will not affect your Hardware.

     

    nicky_aditera
    New Member
    December 12, 2019

    Hi all

     

    regarding the expired license, let say if my license already expired since 6 months ago and if I want to renew it now, will the expired date of the license following the date that i renew the license or still following the actual expired date?

     

    thank you 

    Catalin_Patrascu
    New Member
    September 5, 2014
    Hy, Thank you for your answers. Now practicaly i have the following choice: 1) buy subscription and all the service are back and functional 2) delete all the policy and leave the web traffic free Is correct?
    emnoc
    New Member
    September 5, 2014
    No not delete the fwpolicy but remove the UTM security profile from the firewall policies. I think that' s what you meant how long has the FGT been out of contract?
    huzefa47
    New Member
    September 2, 2018

    Does DLP in FortiGate require any subscription?

     

    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    SuperUser
    September 2, 2018

    I don't think so. Easy to test though.

    elio2018
    New Member
    December 16, 2019

    hello...

    what are the features that will remain working when the license expire, can we say that we are still protected approximately 70% for example. i need a detailed answer if you please.

    Dave_Hall
    New Member
    December 16, 2019

    emnoc pretty much answered this question already in the earlier post in this thread, but an "official" answer seem to be from KB#10817.

     

    elio2018 wrote:

    hello...

    what are the features that will remain working when the license expire, can we say that we are still protected approximately 70% for example. i need a detailed answer if you please.

    Killua1517
    New Member
    December 17, 2019

    Hi!

    I have an additional quention about this... in a fortimail, what happens when fortiguard and fortigate license expired? block all or permit all?

     

    Thank you so much

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