Systems Upgraded to 24.1 and shipped - Can change to business

[hgerding]

I had 8 opnsense boxes go out to remote sites (a plane ride) and found out they had been upgraded to 24.1 and now we need to manage them centrally. So I put in the business license and as I understand it 24.4 is not available until April

In the meantime, I need to add them to central management. How can I do this? I cannot format them! These are far away and I need to get them into production. (actually, 2 of them are in production as of today.)

[DEC670airp414user]

that seems odd.

all my appliances have shipped with business installed that i recall

[franco]

You can reinstall with business images 23.10 from https://opnsense-update.deciso.com/

But it's true that all recent appliances are preinstalled with the business edition.


Cheers,
Franco

[hgerding]

We don't use the hardware as it needs to be ULC certified (Canadian), so we install the download from the website and purchase the business version, then enter the license key and upgrade it to business.

As a note, we did look at purchasing the hardware. (We would sell it if it was easy to do so)

This is how we have always done it, and it was only when we went to 24.1 that it became an issue.

24.4 business is not available till April. It would now require an airplane flight to fix or pay a local tech. (2000KM) away. (and not always in a place with a lot of technical expertise ie remote locations)