Register The Vm-Series Firewall; Activate The License - PaloAlto Networks VM-100 Deployment Manual

Register the VM-Series Firewall

Use the instructions in this section to register your capacity auth-code with your support account.
Register the VM-Series Firewall
1. Log in to https://support.paloaltonetworks.com
2. Select and click
Assets
3. In the
Add VM-Series Auth-Code
to save your input. The page will display the list of auth-codes registered to your support account.
You can track the number of VM-Series firewalls that have been deployed and the number of licenses that are still
available for use against each auth-code. When all the available licenses are used, the auth-code does not display on
the VM-Series Auth-Codes page. To view all the assets that are deployed, select

Activate the License

To activate the license on your VM-Series firewall, you must have deployed the VM-Series firewall and
completed initial configuration. For instructions to deploy the VM-Series firewall, see
Until you activate the license on the VM-Series firewall, the firewall does not have a serial number, the MAC
address of the dataplane interfaces are not unique, and only a minimal number of sessions are supported.
Because the MAC addresses are not unique until the firewall is licensed, to prevent issues caused by overlapping
MAC addresses, make sure that you do not have multiple, unlicensed VM-Series firewalls.
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with your account credentials.
Add VM-Series Auth-Codes
field, enter the capacity auth-code you received by email, and click the checkmark
.
.
Assets > Devices
VM-Series Deployments.
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