Essentials licenses

The Essentials license allows you to configure and manage firewall devices with essential networking and security capabilities, including switching, routing, high availability, clustering, user control, application control, and database updates.

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 1200/3100/4200/6100

You obtain a Essentials license when you purchase the Secure Firewall 1200/3100/4200/6100.

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 Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center. For Specific License Reservation, you need to add the Essentials license to your account.