Datasheet

Barracuda NG Firewall

Licensing

ACTIVATION

Barracuda NG Firewall appliances and Barracuda NG Firewall Control Centers, regardless if shipped as a hardware or virtual

appliance, need to be activated to function properly. Upon login with the NG Admin management tool, the activation

process will start and retrieve the needed license ﬁles automatically. If not done before, the user may need to ﬁll in a form

and accept the End User License Agreement (EULA) in the process. For Barracuda NG Firewall Vx editions a “License Token”

will be sent out via email for veriﬁcation before the actual activation. The Barracuda NG Control Center may perform an

activation on behalf of a Barracuda NG Firewall, even if the actual unit is not yet online or known to the Barracuda NG

Control Center. For more details please see below:

BARRACUDA NG FIREWALL AND NG CONTROL CENTER HARDWARE UNITS

For the Barracuda NG Firewalls to retrieve the licenses automatically via auto activation, an administrator needs to connect to

the appliance using the NG Admin management tool. The workstation that NG admin is used on needs to be able to access

the Internet to carry out activation and license retrieval on behalf for the accessed unit. By default, the activation procedure

starts automatically after 30 seconds. It can also be started manually on the NG Admin “Status” page. During activation

all available licenses will be transferred and stored in the licenses conﬁguration node on the Barracuda NG Firewall. This

procedure may be repeated several times, but only new licenses (e.g., license renewals or purchases of additional license

subscriptions) these will be retrieved.

BARRACUDA NG FIREWALL VX AND NG CONTROL CENTER VX

For Barracuda NG Firewall Vx editions, the NG Admin management tool will ask for a license token before activation. At this

point the license token that was distributed via email needs to be entered. The license token is usually a simple text string

containing letters and numbers separated by dashes like E6NEN-H5H69-62WKY. Upon entering the license token, the MAC

address of your virtual machine will be retrieved and licenses will be issued based on this MAC address and provided to

the NG Firewall Vx. The VMware machine will also receive a unique serial ID that you will need for future downloads of IPS

updates, content security updates, and license extensions.

The license token may be entered several times, but only during the ﬁrst use new licenses will be retrieved. For subsequent

use of the license token, the procedure will retrieve the licenses issued earlier.

Note:

The activation date determines the start date for the following subscriptions: Energize Updates (incl. IPS), NG Web Filter, NG Malware

Protection, NG Web Security, SSL VPN, and NAC.

BASE LICENSES FOR BARRACUDA NG FIREWALL UNITS

This license contains unlimited users (protected IPs, VPN tunnel, and VPN clients) without a limit on concurrent connections.

The license is associated with a hardware ID and model of the machine it was issued for. Typically, a MAC address of a

network card is used as the key for the license. The generated license ﬁle is transferred to the unit during the activation

procedure.

Note:

The Barracuda NG Firewall hardware detection function will carry out a compatibility check upon installation. If the base license does not

match the actual hardware model, the system will enter a 15-day “grace period”. After 15 days the Barracuda NG Firewall will stop forwarding

any trac.