How to Delete Active or Expired purchased and Trial Licenses from Firewall

• When licenses are about to expire, warning messages are sent.
• Trial licenses are no exception and will generate alerts when they are close to their expiration (messages below)
• The article provides a way to delete the licenses.

XX/29 04:XX:07 crit License for feature GlobalProtect Portal expired on XX/30
XX/29 04:XX:07 crit License for feature GlobalProtect Gateway expired on XX/30

• Palo Alto Firewalls
• Supported PAN-OS
• License

1. List the current installed license files by running the command delete license key ?

> delete license key ?

GlobalProtect_Gateway_2012_04_27.key       20xx/07/19 08:52:35        0.3K
GlobalProtect_Portal_2012_04_27.key        20xx/07/19 08:52:35        0.3K
Threat_Prevention_2012_04_27.key           20xx/07/19 08:52:35        0.3K
<value>                                    File name

2. Delete the license key file with the command  "> delete license key <filename>" command  The Tab key can be used to auto-complete the file name.

> delete license key GlobalProtect_Gateway_2012_04_27.key

3. Confirm deletion by executing the following command, the trial licenses should no longer be listed.

> request license info

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