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Wackitron_36350
Altocumulus
AltocumulusAZURE -- F5 VE V14 -- License Expiry Check
Hi F5 Fraternity,
When I ran the command tmsh show sys license, It just gives me the Start Date Info. Which seems ok to me.
But, the question is how do we know the Expiration of the License or t...
Hello Abdul,
You can always check license details from the GUI:
System -> License
You can still check from the CLI if you would prefer, but the commands depend on what version of BIG-IP you are using. For versions 12 or later, running
tmsh show sys licensegives you the full license information, including the expiration and support information. If you are still having trouble finding it, you can always grep for what you need.
tmsh show sys license | grep "End Date" tmsh show sys license | grep "Service"For versions 11 and earlier, we can use the following to check license details individually.
tmsh show /sys license detail | grep [details]Feel free to ask if you have any more questions,
Austin
AMiles_377865
Cirrocumulus
CirrocumulusHello Abdul,
You can always check license details from the GUI:
System -> License
You can still check from the CLI if you would prefer, but the commands depend on what version of BIG-IP you are using. For versions 12 or later, running
tmsh show sys license
gives you the full license information, including the expiration and support information. If you are still having trouble finding it, you can always grep for what you need.
tmsh show sys license | grep "End Date"
tmsh show sys license | grep "Service"
For versions 11 and earlier, we can use the following to check license details individually.
tmsh
show /sys license detail | grep [details]
Feel free to ask if you have any more questions,
Austin
Wackitron_36350Thanks Austin, for some reason on Version 13.0 when I ran the tmsh command piping with grep, I was not able to get the Expiration Date. May be its version specific.
- AMiles_377865
Did you get it to work from the GUI or did you upgrade? I wonder if it's a known issue or something new. What version 13 are you running?
- Wackitron_36350
Thanks for the reply. Its V13.1.1(0.0.4 build). No I just asked my Accounts Team to know about the Expiration Date. Since its been holiday season, have not heard back from them yet. I spun V14 instances on one of our other ENV, even here I was not able look up via CLI for the expiration. Below is the output:
tmsh show sys license Sys::License Licensed Version 14.0.0 Registration key xxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx Licensed On 2018/12/19 Service Check Date 2018/12/19 Platform ID Z100AzureCloud Active Modules ASM, ADD-VE, 3G (xxxx-xxxxx) Local Traffic Manager, VE-3G (xxxxx-xxxxx) Rate Shaping APM, Limited SSL, VE Max Compression, VE Anti-Virus Checks Base Endpoint Security Checks Firewall Checks Network Access Secure Virtual Keyboard APM, Web Application Machine Certificate Checks Protected Workspace Remote Desktop App Tunnel - AMiles_377865
It might be a pay-as-you-go license, which I think many of the cloud-based providers use as their business model. It looks like we can't see the expiration from the command line, which I don't really understand the reasoning for. But maybe you can try checking it from your Azure Portal. This page seems to have some information on checking licenses for Azure.
- Wackitron_36350
@AMiles, but we do not have the pay-as-you-go license for these F5 instances. Thank you for sharing the link though. I will check with my Accounts Team about the License Expiration stats.