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What happend when licence expired. On an ' unlicensed' fortigate you will get a warning of. License is no longer valid the webfilter will still function but.

Support and Services are two different things. Support is called FortiCare and this covers the hardware and firmware, along with technical and customer support access.

Services are things like AV, IPS, Web Filtering. Typically, these were purchased in a bundle like the UTM or Enterprise bundle.

All Services are supported by FortiGuard, they are the ones that update and create the signatures and enhance the inspection engines. Papercraft zoids voltron download torrent. Your Services renewal covers the hours updates of these Security Services. And generally speaking, your renewal is of both Support and Services, of FortiCare and FortiGuard Services.

If you need more details, just ask your Fortinet Account team, every customer has one assigned to them. • • • • • • •. This is not for one specific FortiGate. I found a couple of old and out of support. When I was managing FortiNet I always kept all up to date. Cheaper in the long run, but some companies don't see it that way.

My instinct is always to push to get it under support, otherwise buy a product that does not require support like Ubiquiti. For Cisco, Forti, Sonicwall get the support, and keep the support. Just clarifying, not that I want to let hardware expired, but I am trying to understand what happens when it does. I have been thinking on buying an old FortiGate too, but then I was wondering about support.

I have a FortiAP, donated by Fortinet with 5 year support when I did a demo (high end demo) a few years ago, but I was wondering about getting a FortiGate to play with. I don't need it, but I do have lots of hardware that I can play with if I want to test something so it would be a device I would connect when I need to.

In the other hand I have found a few Fgate out of date, and I was wondering what are the options to put them in a more up to date state. In my humble opinion, UTM should always be licensed because you mainly want the security features. But it is though to convince people about them until they have a problem.

However the firmware on the device it should be up to date whenever possible. • • • • • • •. In Fortispeak, the policy is called 'Continuous Service Policy', which outlines the renew policy on certain Fortinet products (mainly Fortigates/fortiwifi). A copy (dated May 27, 2010) is located here (at the time of this post): ​ Give the above PDF document a read - it does provide some info about renewing the subscriptions on 'expired' units. As others have already stated, support is only for registered units with active subscriptions and is not transferable under normal conditions (e.g. You can transfer licenses from RMAed units). That said, if you already have a fortinet support login id and at least one active subscription (for any Fortinet product), you should be able to download most firmwares from their support site.

​ • • • • • •. Thanks for all the answers. I figured that here I would get different points of view. I myself never had to worry because Fortinet stronger points are the security services. They JUST WORK without putting overhead in the appliance (which is something I cannot say about Sonicwall and Meraki.mainly Meraki) So the security fabric was always my focus point, but now I am working with clients that are stuck in early 2000's security and think a dumb firewall is enough, as much as a I can I try explaining, but I know I will run over expired units, customers that only want the firewall and nothing else, etc, etc.