fortigate vm cannot license check, what happens next?

[Ralph1973]

Hello, I try to find out what happens when Fortigate VM is not able to contact the internet anymore to validate its license. I *Think*  that it falls back to the functionality it has when it has an evaluation license. This means that only 6 firewall rules are accepted. Consequently this will result in a total outage of the system since we have 500+ rules and 25+ vdoms configured in our solution. Can anybody confirm this?

Thanks and regards,

Ralph

[ede_pfau]

(CS should be able to answer this within minutes - web chat?)

[Ralph1973]

Hello and thanks, but I experienced that the webchat engineer didn't have that much knowledge unfortunately. In the meantime a Fortinet ticket has been logged and Fortinet didn't have the answer yet, but they will come back on this.

Regards,

Ralph