vSRX Base and Advanced licensing
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The vSRX is ordered and deployed with the necessary license keys to operate. Advanced licensing is only available directly from Juniper Networks®. Licenses can be procured from the Juniper LMS (Networks License Management System).
For more information, see Licensing guide.
Adding license keys from the CLI
You can add a license key from a local file, from a remote URL, or from the terminal.
To install a license from the CLI, use the request system license add operational mode command. You can add the license from a local file or from a remote URL that contains the license key, or you can paste the license key in the
terminal.
user@vsrx> `request system license add terminal`
[Type ^D at a new line to end input,
enter blank line between each license key]
E413XXXX57 aaaaaa bbbbbb cccccc dddddd eeeeee ffffff
cccccc bbbbbb dddddd aaaaaa ffffff aaaaaa
aaaaaa bbbbbb cccccc dddddd eeeeee ffffff
cccccc bbbbbb dddddd aaaaaa ffffff
E413XXXX57: successfully added
add license complete (no errors)
You can save the license key to a file and upload the file to the vSRX file system through FTP or Secure Copy. Then, you can use the request system license add file-name command to install the license.
Optionally, use the show system license command to view details of the licenses.
root@host> `show system license`
The license key is installed and activated on the vSRX instance.