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Licensing

You must have a license to deploy FortiProxy for Azure. On Azure, there is one order type for FortiProxy: bring-your-own-license (BYOL), which offers perpetual (normal series and v-series) and annual subscription (s-series) licensing. Subscription is month-based. BYOL licenses are available for purchase from resellers or your distributors, and the publicly available price list, which Fortinet updates quarterly, lists prices. BYOL licensing provides the same ordering practice across all private and public clouds, no matter what the platform is. You must activate a license for the first time you access the instance from the GUI or CLI before you can start using various features.

For BYOL, cloud vendors charge separately for resource consumption on computing instances, storage, and so on, without use of software running on top of it (in this case the FortiProxy-VM). You typically order a combination of products and services including support entitlement.

To proceed with licensing a BYOL deployment and make use of Fortinet technical support, you must obtain a license, register it in FortiCloud, and activate the FortiProxy-VM:

  1. Obtain licenses for the BYOL licensing model through any Fortinet partner. If you do not have a partner, contact jerrywang@fortinet.com for assistance in purchasing a license. You will receive a PDF with an activation code.
  2. If you do not have a FortiCloud account, create one here by following the instructions in the FortiCloud documentation.
  3. Register your license in your FortiCloud account by following the instructions in the FortiCloud documentation. Doing so allows our support team to identify your registration in the system.
  4. Download the license (.lic) file to your computer as you will be prompted to upload this license to activate the FortiProxy-VM during the first login. Activation is required before you can configure the FortiProxy-VM.
    NoteIt may take up to 30 minutes for Fortinet servers to fully recognize the new license. If you get an error that the license is invalid when uploading the license (.lic) file to activate the FortiProxy-VM, wait 30 minutes and try again.
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Licensing

You must have a license to deploy FortiProxy for Azure. On Azure, there is one order type for FortiProxy: bring-your-own-license (BYOL), which offers perpetual (normal series and v-series) and annual subscription (s-series) licensing. Subscription is month-based. BYOL licenses are available for purchase from resellers or your distributors, and the publicly available price list, which Fortinet updates quarterly, lists prices. BYOL licensing provides the same ordering practice across all private and public clouds, no matter what the platform is. You must activate a license for the first time you access the instance from the GUI or CLI before you can start using various features.

For BYOL, cloud vendors charge separately for resource consumption on computing instances, storage, and so on, without use of software running on top of it (in this case the FortiProxy-VM). You typically order a combination of products and services including support entitlement.

To proceed with licensing a BYOL deployment and make use of Fortinet technical support, you must obtain a license, register it in FortiCloud, and activate the FortiProxy-VM:

  1. Obtain licenses for the BYOL licensing model through any Fortinet partner. If you do not have a partner, contact jerrywang@fortinet.com for assistance in purchasing a license. You will receive a PDF with an activation code.
  2. If you do not have a FortiCloud account, create one here by following the instructions in the FortiCloud documentation.
  3. Register your license in your FortiCloud account by following the instructions in the FortiCloud documentation. Doing so allows our support team to identify your registration in the system.
  4. Download the license (.lic) file to your computer as you will be prompted to upload this license to activate the FortiProxy-VM during the first login. Activation is required before you can configure the FortiProxy-VM.
    NoteIt may take up to 30 minutes for Fortinet servers to fully recognize the new license. If you get an error that the license is invalid when uploading the license (.lic) file to activate the FortiProxy-VM, wait 30 minutes and try again.
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