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Sophos Metric

Hardware appliance

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Unit
Appliance
Aliases
per hardware appliance; per UTM appliance
Definition
Licensing Guidelines: Sophos Firewall subscriptions purchased on a hardware appliance (Network Protection, Web Protection, Email Protection, Webserver Protection, Zero-Day Protection, Xstream Protection, Standard Protection, Fusion Orchestration) and UTM subscriptions are licensed "per hardware appliance".
Counting rules
Each XGS (or legacy XG/SG) appliance needs its own subscriptions, tied to its serial number; renewals must quote the serial number. In active-active HA each active appliance needs its own matching licences; in active-passive HA only the active appliance carries subscriptions and shares them with the passive one. Xstream Protection carries a daily DNS query limit per model (310,000 for XGS88 up to 120,000,000 for XGS8500).
Floors / minimums
A Base Firewall licence is required on every hardware and virtual firewall before subscriptions take effect.
Applies to products
  • Sophos Firewall (XGS Series)
  • Sophos UTM
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