License Requirements for Management Center High Availability Configurations

Each device requires the same licenses whether managed by a single management center or by management centers in a high availability pair (hardware or virtual).

Example: If you want to enable advanced malware protection for two devices managed by a management center pair, buy two Malware Defense licenses and two TM subscriptions, register the active management center with the Smart Software Manager, then assign the licenses to the two devices on the active management center.

Only the active management center is registered with the Smart Software Manager. When failover occurs, the system communicates with Smart Software Manager to release the license entitlements from the originally-active management center and assign them to the newly-active management center.

In Specific License Reservation deployments, only the primary management center requires a Specific License Reservation.

Hardware Management Center

No special license is required for hardware management centers in a high availability pair.

Management Center Virtual

You will need two identically licensed management center virtuals.

Example: For the management center virtual high availability pair managing 10 devices, you can use:

• Two (2) management center virtual 10 entitlements

• 10 device licenses

If you break the high availability pair, the management center virtual entitlements associated with the secondary management center virtual are released. (In the example, you would then have two standalone management center virtual 10s.)