It is too costly to have a separate license for a hot spare in a VRRP setup especially since the license is not used unless the primary is down. Most of your competitors offer this feature.
Comments: 7
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07 Feb
Justin WolerySince you can already remove and re-assign a license via command center in real time why is this needed? This functionality is already baked in. The primary firewall doesn't even need to be operational i believe so you should already be able to do this from your account page in untangle command center.
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27 Feb
Julio MartinsJustin, in case of a catastrofic failure in a mission critical business, playing with licenses is far less than ideal. I think this suggestion would be a great feature.
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17 Mar
Rob DunhamI agree with Justin Wolery. With Command Center, this is a moot point.
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27 Mar
Aaron HoytJulio has it right. If you are using command center to move a license you are missing the automated nature of VRRP. The point being made by the original request is to license the secondary so the automated fail does not require human input. When my primary fails, I want to spend my time fixing the primary not messing about with licencing, configurations and such.
What is the negitive to affordable licensing for a secondary hot spare? -
09 Apr
lowbugThis is a must for a hot spare. Share the license.
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05 May
MTI fully agree with Julio Martins. When you have a network outage you do not want to spend more time on messing around with licenses. A spare license should be standard like in Sophos and should be combined with true hot-hot high availability.
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19 Jun
Why Not?The low vote count is misleading. As a percentage of those concerned with this issue, it's 100% required. But because we are in the minority of users, a critical capability is missing.