Essentials Licenses

The Essentials license allows you to:

  • Configure your devices to perform switching and routing (including DHCP relay and NAT)

  • Configure devices as a high availability pair

  • Configure clustering

  • Implement user and application control by adding user and application conditions to access control rules

  • Update the Vulnerability database (VDB) and geolocation database (GeoDB).

  • Download intrusion rules such as SRU/LSP. However, you cannot deploy access control policy or rules that have intrusion policy to the device unless IPS license is enabled.

Secure Firewall 3100/4200

You obtain a Essentials license when you purchase the Secure Firewall 3100/4200.

Other Models

Except in deployments using Specific License Reservation, a Essentials license is automatically added to your account when you register a device to the management center. For Specific License Reservation, you need to add the Essentials license to your account.