Configuring enterprise license management
With Enterprise (Redistributable) licensing, you obtain a re-distributable license from Customer Service & Support and subdivide that license into smaller “seat’ licenses for your users. You can set the expiry date and seat count for each client license. The expiry date of your client licenses cannot be later than that of the enterprise license. The total seat count limit of your client licenses can exceed the seat count limit of the enterprise license, but the total number of managed clients cannot. FortiClient redistributable licensing can be validated by FortiClient Manager or by a company’s own licensing validation system. For more information on internal validation, see the FortiClient Administration Guide.
The Redistributable license key can also be given to users and input into FortiClient manually.
To use enterprise licensing, you need to:
• Obtain an Enterprise License from Customer Service & Support and register it on your FortiManager unit.
• Create a custom FortiClient installer that enables enterprise licensing. You can include the client license key in the installer or provide the client license key to users to apply after installation. The FortiClient application must be specifically customized for use with re-distributable licensing. You can use the FCRepackager tool to create a customized installer package that includes the redistributable license. Use the “-a”, “-e” and “-k” switches. For more information, see the FortiClient Administration Guide and the FCRepackager Read-Me file.
• Deploy the customized FortiClient installer to your users.