Licensing

Two types of license are available for FortiPortal:

• Permanent: Perpetual license.

• Flexible (Flex-VM): Resources are allocated and billed on-demand.

Existing FortiPortal subscription licenses will be replaced with Flex-VM when renewed.

FortiPortal must have internet access (port 443) to fortiguard.net for licenses to be validated and installed.

Mixed-license scalable cluster

A mixed-license cluster can be formed with nodes on a subscription license and nodes on Flex-VM. Flex-VM allows for more licenses to be added as needed.

The total license for the cluster is the license from the subscription nodes plus the licenses from the Flex-VM nodes.

Changing to a new license triggers a reboot of the FortiPortal instance. When changing the license on a node in a scalable cluster, do not change the license on other nodes until the whole cluster is up and becomes stable after the reboot. Otherwise the license change may cause the cluster to be down and unrecoverable.

Flex-VM

FortiPortal is part of the Flex-VM program.

MSSP partners can use points to create license entitlements for FortiPortal-VM (7.0.3 and later). Moving to the Flex-VM licensing model does not introduce additional costs for existing FPC deployments.

To create and use a Flex-VM entitlement for FortiPortal:

1. In Flex-VM, create a new VM configuration, with Product Type set to FortiPortal Virtual Machine.

2. In Flex-VM, create a new VM entitlement.

3. In Flex-VM, in the new VM entitlement, generate or regenerate a token.

   

4. Inject the Flex-VM license into the VM instance using the following command in the FortiPortal CLI:

   execute vm-license <token>

   The Flex-VM license injection command must be executed at least 5 minutes after the GUI is accessible when this FortiPortal instance has just started or upgraded.

More information

For more information about licensing options, see the FortiPortal data sheet at fortinet.com.

For more information about Flex-VM, see the Flex-VM Administration Guide.