Technical Tip: How to Manually restore FortiGate license in CLI

Ted · ‎06-28-2022

Description

This article describes that air-gap environments physically isolated or not connected to the Internet, FortiGuard packages can be manullay 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 FTP server.

- tftp: Restore license from TFTP server.

<license file name>:

- License file name(path) on the remote server.

<server>[:ftp port]:

- FTP server IPv4, IPv6, or FQDN can be attached with port.

<Enter>|<user>:

- FTP username may be needed.

<passwd>

- 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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