Managing licenses for Virtual Sensors

Virtual Sensors require a software license to activate the baseline throughput of 5 Gbps and 1 Gbps on VM5000 and VM600 Sensors respectively. The license is provided as a .zip or .jar file. The Manager supports both formats. The license procured contains the details of the Sensor's throughput. The Manager checks the compliance periodically to check the number of licenses against the Sensor's throughput.

Note

• You must first purchase a license to enable traffic inspection in the Sensors. To obtain a license, contact Trellix Sales.

• If you are using any VM600 or VM5000 Sensor and plan to upgrade the Manager to 11.1.7.41 or later versions, you must assign 1 license to each VM600 and 5 licenses to each VM5000 Sensor instance. Without the license assignment, you cannot deploy signature sets and policy updates to the Sensor.

• Licenses for Clusters in the Public Cloud are not applicable.

In the case of the VM5000 Sensor, 5 active licenses each of 1 Gbps are required to achieve the throughput of the Sensor. For the VM600 Sensor, only 1 active 1 Gbps license is required.

You can upload the license from the Licenses page in the Manager. In the Manager, go to Manager → <Admin Domain Name> → Setup → Licenses. Click on the Virtual Sensors tab.

Licenses page

The following details are displayed on the Virtual Sensors tab:

The following actions can be performed on the Virtual Sensors tab: