How to Activate Trial Licenses
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Created On 09/27/18 04:54 AM - Last Modified 01/23/26 16:04 PM
Symptom
Trial licenses are available for various features such as AIOps, DNS Security, GlobalProtect, Advanced Wildfire, and SD WAN. For a current list of available trial licenses, please reach out to your Account Team.
NOTE: When activating a purchased license, the trial license for that feature will be overwritten and can no longer be used.
Environment
- Customer Support Portal (CSP)
Resolution
Activate trial licenses in Assets or Devices pages. Follow the procedure below to activate trial licenses in Assets page:
- Login to Customer Support Portal with the account which owns the asset.
- Click on Products > Assets.
- Find the device, click on the Licenses & Subscriptions icon for the device. To display the icons, you must hover the mouse in the action column of the specific device.
NOTE: You can activate a trial license with the below steps on a hardware device. Trial licenses for VMs created from Software NGFW Credits license cannot be activated the same way. To try a feature license on a VM, you have to Edit the deployment profile and select the feature license you would like to try.
- Click the Activate License button, select Activate Trial License and select desired trial licenses. Read through the EULA and Support Agreement. If everything complies, click Agree and Submit.
- Lastly, retrieve the license keys on the device or (if your device is offline) upload the trial license keys manually.
To activate trial licenses in Devices page:
- Login to Customer Support Portal with the account which owns the asset.
- Click on Products > Devices.
- Find the device where the trial licenses will be applied. Please use either the drop-down or manual scroll option. In this example, we will be searching by the Serial Number. Drop-down option:
- When you find the desired device, click on the pencil icon under the Actions column:
- Under Activate Licenses, select the Activate Trial License radio button
- Under Available Trial Licenses, select the desired trial license(s)
NOTE: This screenshot is solely for example purposes. Trial licenses depicted here may not be an accurate representation of what is available for your device.
- Read through the EULA and Support Agreement. If everything complies, click Agree and Submit
- Lastly, retrieve (or manually upload) the license keys on the device with the trial licenses applied.
Additional Information
- Trial Licenses cannot be activated on PAYG VM
- Is there a trial license for VSYS?
- Removing Expired Trial Licenses from Customer Support Portal
- Device models that are not compatible with trial licenses
- Can a trial license be applied on a device that already has a purchased version of the same license?
- Are support trial licenses available?
- Can the Trial License be activated on a Software NGFW device?