Share license with hot spare Untangle (VRRP)

Comments: 9

• 07 Feb, '19
  Justin Wolery

  Since 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.

• 27 Feb, '19
  Julio Martins

  Justin, 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.

• 17 Mar, '19
  Rob Dunham

  I agree with Justin Wolery. With Command Center, this is a moot point.

• 27 Mar, '19
  Aaron Hoyt

  Julio 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, '19
  lowbug

  This is a must for a hot spare. Share the license.

• 05 May, '19
  MT

  I 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.

• 19 Jun, '19
  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.

• 29 Mar, '20
  Arek Kurzawa

  Use Untangle as VM

• 23 Apr
  Bogdan NEMTANU

  The possibility of a licensing mode: host + users (Microsoft licensing model), would reconcile everyone. For example I have a host at HQ used by a maximum of 55 users and a host at the warehouse with 2 permanent users and another 20 users who are from HQ but who appear occasionally at warehouse, the solution buys the classic license of 75 users (which includes a host) and I add a separate license for one host (no users) separately. Considering that the hosts are permanently connected to the internet, ie they have access to Untangle Command center, the management/share of resources can be done automatically from the command center.