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Dec 20, 2018
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AZURE -- 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...
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  • AMiles_377865's avatar
    AMiles_377865
    Dec 20, 2018

    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 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

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AMiles_377865
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Dec 20, 2018

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 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_36350's avatar
    Wackitron_36350
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    Jan 01, 2019

    Thanks 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.

     

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    Jan 02, 2019

    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?

     

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    Jan 03, 2019

    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
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    AMiles_377865
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    Jan 04, 2019

    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's avatar
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    Jan 06, 2019

    @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.