{"id":22376,"date":"2018-08-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/kb\/activate-sophos-xg-firewall-license-key\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T10:46:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T09:46:01","slug":"enable-sophos-sfos-firewall-license-key","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/kb\/enable-sophos-sfos-firewall-license-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Activate Sophos Firewall license key"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this guide, we will show you where to install the license key for your Sophos Firewall.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: When purchasing a hardware bundle (TotalProtect, EnterpriseProtect, etc.), experience shows that the license key is automatically installed by Sophos itself. As soon as you start the firewall, the license is activated. A manual import of the key is only necessary for renewals and single licenses.  <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1-zur-seite-uber-das-produkt-navigieren\">1. Navigate to the &#8220;About the product&#8221; page<\/h2>\n\n<p>Log in to your XG Firewall and click on your username in the top right navigation. Then select <code>\u00dcber das Produkt<\/code> from the drop-down menu. <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-firewall-dashboard-nav-about-product-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"86097\" src=\"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-firewall-dashboard-nav-about-product-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-firewall-dashboard-nav-about-product-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-firewall-dashboard-nav-about-product-scaled-64x48.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-firewall-dashboard-nav-about-product-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-firewall-dashboard-nav-about-product-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-firewall-dashboard-nav-about-product-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-firewall-dashboard-nav-about-product-2048x1537.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-firewall-dashboard-nav-about-product-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Activate subscription<\/h2>\n\n<p>Under <strong>Appliance Registration &#8211; Overview<\/strong>, click the blue button labeled <code>Abonnement aktivieren<\/code>. After that a window appears to activate the license key. <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-firewall-activate-subscription-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"86102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-firewall-activate-subscription-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-firewall-activate-subscription-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-firewall-activate-subscription-scaled-64x48.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-firewall-activate-subscription-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-firewall-activate-subscription-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-firewall-activate-subscription-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-firewall-activate-subscription-2048x1537.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-firewall-activate-subscription-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Import license key<\/h2>\n\n<p>Copy the license number from your license PDF, which you will receive by email after 1 &#8211; 3 days after your order, and paste it into the form field. In the following screenshot we have framed the field in red. Then click on <code>Schl\u00fcssel verifizieren<\/code> to read the license key.  <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-sfos-enter-your-license-key-for-this-device.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1014\" data-id=\"15779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-sfos-enter-your-license-key-for-this-device-1024x1014.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-sfos-enter-your-license-key-for-this-device-1024x1014.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-sfos-enter-your-license-key-for-this-device-64x63.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-sfos-enter-your-license-key-for-this-device-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-sfos-enter-your-license-key-for-this-device-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-sfos-enter-your-license-key-for-this-device-600x594.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-sfos-enter-your-license-key-for-this-device-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-sfos-enter-your-license-key-for-this-device-768x761.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-sfos-enter-your-license-key-for-this-device-1536x1521.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-sfos-enter-your-license-key-for-this-device-12x12.jpg 12w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-sfos-enter-your-license-key-for-this-device-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-sfos-enter-your-license-key-for-this-device.jpg 1538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","format":"standard","kb_kategorie":[382],"class_list":["post-22376","kb","type-kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","kb_kategorie-sophos-firewall"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/22376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_kategorie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_kategorie?post=22376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}