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Do I need Business subscription for all firewall to be manage by OPNcentral?
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November 01, 2023, 02:11:43 am »
Dear All,
I'm planning to deploy a number OPNsense devices across a number of sites and wishes to centrally manage these firewall via OPNcentral. Do I need to get the Business subscription for every OPNsense device? Or can I do with just 1 business license for the one with OPNcentral installed?
Apologies if this question has been answered
Stanley
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November 01, 2023, 06:03:46 am »
I'm using OPNcentral too, and from my understanding for it to work, each of the firewalls needs the os-opncentral plugin, which is only available in the business repo. That would mean that each firewall needs the license.
I also tried to add a community edition before but that didn't work right for me.
https://docs.opnsense.org/vendor/deciso/opncentral.html
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November 01, 2023, 06:44:04 am »
Yep, you need an active license on the managed device too.
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November 01, 2023, 06:51:53 am »
Thank you mimugmail and Monviech for the information.
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November 01, 2023, 08:14:03 am »
Technically you don't need an active license (that is only for updates). The way this works is there is a business core plugin which offers additional services for the OPNcentral plugin. The business core plugin is always installed so these can be managed via a single OPNcentral instance. Think of it as the client/server split... the clients are installed in all business editions and the server only needs to be set up for one box (and this one doesn't necessarily have to be an active firewall).
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August 31, 2024, 11:44:14 pm »
Hi Franco
Let me get this right, on expiration of a business license on a node, I can still manage that node remotely with OPNCentral cloud?
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September 02, 2024, 11:35:01 am »
Sure, but you can no longer update that node so sooner or later you need to stop updating all of them because individual settings and sync targets will diverge as newer releases are pulled on some systems but not others.
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Franco
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