Online and offline activation of SSP/ISG Hypervisor and ISG Applications
Release : 1.0
SSP/ISG HYPERVISOR LICENSE ACTIVATION OFFLINE/ONLINE
EXAMPLE: SSP-S410 PLATFORM
ONLINE ACTIVATION
Ensure the SSP has Internet connection to the Broadcom domains
SSP-ISG# licensing load id <ssp-serial-number> username <username-email> password <password>
OFFLINE ACTIVATION
Then from the CLI
KB article: https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/252241/manually-install-isg-application-license.html
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ISG APPLICATIONS LICENSE ACTIVATION ONLINE/OFFLINE
#### APP LICENSE VIEW ####
If you’ve successfully deployed a ProxySG app image on the ISG, for license activation you need to follow the documentation. First of all list all the installed apps and check if they have already a license installed via SSH to SSP ISG:
Remember the label name that you use for the APP deployment and type of product.
#### ONLINE ACTIVATION ####
If the SSP ISG Hypervisor has connection the external WAN
#### OFFLINE ACTIVATION / MANUAL ACTIVATION ####
Please download the License for the product. In your situation it is ISG PROXY SN: <your serial number> from the Broadcom Support Portal > My Entitlements > Web Protection Suite > ISG Proxy with created passphrase (ex. mypassword)
Next steps are covering the situation whereas the activation cannot be made automatically if for ex ISG hypervisor is restricted from using external WAN connection.
To do the manual activation, please open the downloaded license with Notepad++ and copy the contents of generated license file.
Open SSP ISG CLI via SSH and use the following command to install/overwrite the license to ISG PROXY
ISG (config)# licensing inline force label <Label-of-VM> passphrase <passphrase>
ex. licensinginline force label ProxyISG-2024-11-11 passphrase mypassword
Paste the content of license
Click CTRL+D
License should be installed for the app and it should have an ID with serial number:
ISG (config)# licensing view
Restart ISG SSP
ISG# restart
Then recheck the license on your Proxy APP just after restart of ISG SSP