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Provider-1™ NGX R65
License Upgrade Guide
Release Notes
February 28, 2007
In This Document
Overview
It is highly recommended to upgrade all Provider-1™/SiteManager-1™ NG licenses to
NGX R65 licenses before upgrading software. Provider-1/SiteManager-1 NGX R65 with
licenses from previous versions will not function.
Licenses for versions prior to NG cannot be upgraded directly to NGX R65. In such a
case, you must first upgrade to NG and then upgrade the licenses from NG to NGX R65
licenses.
This document will describe the steps required for upgrading Provider-1/SiteManager-1
licenses to NGX R65, as part of the software Upgrade procedure.
Software Subscription Requirements
The license upgrade procedure is available to purchasers of any of the Enterprise
Software Subscription services. License upgrade will fail for products and accounts for
which you do not have software subscription. You can see the exact products and
accounts for which you have software subscription by looking in your User Center
account.
Overview page 1
Before You Begin page 2
Supported Versions for Upgrade page 2
pv1_license_upgrade page 2
license_upgrade page 3
Provider-1 License Upgrade Flow for an MDS Server with Internet Connection page 4
License Upgrade for a Single CMA page 10
Before You Begin
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In the Accounts page, Enterprise Contract column, and in the Products page,
Subscription and Support column, if the account or product is covered, the expiration
date is shown. Otherwise, the entry says Join Now, with a link that accesses a quote for
purchasing Enterprise Support.
You can purchase an Enterprise Software Subscription for the whole account, in which
case all the products in the account will be covered, or you can purchase an Enterprise
Software Subscription for individual products.
Before You Begin
Before performing a Provider-1/SiteManager-1 license upgrade, it is recommended that
you check http://www.checkpoint.com/techsupport/ngx/license_upgrade.html for up to
date information and downloads regarding the NGX R65 license upgrade.
Supported Versions for Upgrade
For the latest information about supported versions, refer to the NGX R65 Release
Notes.
If your current installation cannot be upgraded directly to NGX R65, you should first
upgrade to either R55 or VSX NG AI R2 for VSX installations.
pv1_license_upgrade
The
pv1_license_upgrade
command line tool is used to perform license upgrade for
Provider-1.
When the tool is run on the MDS, upgraded licenses are obtained from the Check Point
User Center Web site for the MDS and for all the CMAs on the MDS. This tool makes it
simple to automatically upgrade licenses without having to do so manually through the
User Center.
The
pv1_license_upgrade
tool is located in:
•Provider-1 NGX R65 CD at:
<platform>/LicenseUpgrade/
•NGX R65 installation at:
/opt/CPmds-R62/system/license_upgrade/
It is recommended that you check
http://www.checkpoint.com/techsupport/ngx/license_upgrade.html for up to date
information and downloads regarding the NGX R65 license upgrade.
license_upgrade
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license_upgrade
The
license_upgrade
command line tool is used to perform license upgrade for a single
CMA. This is the same tool as that used to perform a license upgrade in SmartCenter
environments.
The
license_upgrade
tool is located in:
•Provider-1 NGX R65 CD at:
<platform>/LicenseUpgrade/
•NGX R65 installation at:
/opt/CPmds-R62/system/license_upgrade/
It is recommended that you check
http://www.checkpoint.com/techsupport/ngx/license_upgrade.html for up to date
information and downloads regarding the NGX R65 license upgrade.
Running the
licence_upgrade
command line tool displays a menu with a number of
options. To see all the options, run:
license_upgrade
.
License Upgrade Tool Options
Table 1
Option Definition
[L] View the licenses installed on your machine.
[S] Sends existing licenses to the User Center Web site to simulate the license
upgrade in order to verify that it can be performed. A real upgrade is not
performed and new licenses are not returned.
[U] Sends existing licenses to the User Center Web site to perform an upgrade (by
default, in online mode) and installs them on the machine.
[C] Reports whether or not there are licenses on the machine that need to be
upgraded.
[O] Performs a license upgrade on a license file that was generated on a machine
with no Internet access to the User Center.
[V] Enables you to view a log of the last license upgrade or the last upgrade
simulation.
Provider-1 License Upgrade Flow for an MDS Server with Internet Connection
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Provider-1 License Upgrade Flow for an MDS
Server with Internet Connection
Verify whether a license upgrade is required by running the console command
pv1_license_upgrade status
. For detailed information refer to License Upgrade of the
Entire System prior to a Software Upgrade page 5.
License Upgrade of the Entire System prior to a Software Upgrade
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License Upgrade of the Entire System prior to a
Software Upgrade
If a license upgrade is performed before the software upgrade, Check Point products
will generate warning messages until all the software on the machine has been
upgraded.
In This Section
Before Upgrading Licenses
1. Copy the
pv1_license_upgrade
and l
icense_upgrade
tools and the
clic
executable
to the MDS version NG machine.
These tools are located in the following directories and should be saved in the same
location on the MDS version NG machine:
•Provider-1 NGX R65 CD at:
<platform>/LicenseUpgrade/
•NGX R65 installation at:
/opt/CPmds-R62/system/license_upgrade/
It is recommended that you check
http://www.checkpoint.com/techsupport/ngx/license_upgrade.html for up to date
information and downloads regarding the NGX R65 license upgrade.
2. To run the
pv1_license_upgrade
tool, please make sure you have root permissions,
and that you are in an MDS environment. In order to switch to MDS environment
run:
mdsenv
.
3. Verify whether a license upgrade is required by running the console command
pv1_license_upgrade
status
.
This step reports whether or not there are licenses on the machine that need to be
upgraded.
Before Upgrading Licenses page 5
Upgrade Licenses page 6
After Completing the License Upgrade Process page 8