Trying to import license manually for offline device getting error license activation failed.

[akshaywaghm]

Trying to import license manually for offline device getting error license activation failed.

[vifi]

Hi,

Please check the article below to apply license in offline devices.
https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Procedure-to-apply-FortiGate-firewall-lice...

[4dtaco]

I had this same error as well.

The fix for me was to redownload the Offline license file. The original license file was slightly different from the license file I downloaded a couple days later.

This was on 7.2.6.