The licenses determine the size of the virtual appliance. VM S license is supported only on 6.3.0 and later releases. Just wondered if anyone had this problem before and how were you able to fix this, as these units are pretty much unusable at the moment.Uploading the license | FortiWeb Private Cloud 6.4. The VM license series is for permanent use of FortiWeb-VM, and the VM S license series is used for annual subscription. Am running now out of ideas what else we can try, as we got refused support from Fortinet due to no support contract being available for it, which is another story I am shouting at our reseller why we don't have support for it! The two VM units have been excluded from any firewall rules, so they should have full access to the internet so this can't be the issue. Restarting the unit and then running the command nothing at all.

Now I can telnet to the unit, but all the Fortinet Knowledge base articles recommending to run the 'execute update-now' command doesn't do much at all. Alll I get is a return button that brings me back to the login prompt. As a part of the license validation process, FortiAuthenticator-VM compares its IP address with the IP information in the license file.If a new license has been imported or the FortiAuthenticator’s IP address has been changed, the FortiAuthenticator-VM must be rebooted in order for the system to validate the change and operate with a valid license. In the License Information widget, in the Registration Status field. Use your FortiCloud account credentials to log in. FortiGate-VM64-Xen License validation no validating Hello, Hope someone had the same issue and was able to resolve it We got two FortiGate VM's which both were working fine for months with a valid license etc. To validate your FortiGate-VM with your FortiManager: Go to System > Dashboard > Status. Then early this week (Monday) they went into a state where we cannot access them via the web interface all we are getting is 'License has already been uploaded, please wait for authentication with registration servers', no one had added new licenses or done anything to it, it just went from one day to the other into this state. Select Activate License, and click Login with FortiCloud. We got two FortiGate VM's which both were working fine for months with a valid license etc. See VM permanent trial license for details. You will see the license status turning into Valid on Dashboard in GUI, or run diagnose debug vm license to check if the license is valid. A license file will be fetched if the token validation can be passed.

This trial license has limited features and capacity. Run the following command in FortiWeb CLI: exec vm-license . fortigate vm license validation

Hope someone had the same issue and was able to resolve it? The FortiOS permanent trial license requires a FortiCare account.

Fortigate vm license validation