When subscription for Fortiguard-based services expires, many things will stop
working, but a lot will continue to work still. Below is the full list of features
in Fortigate that will continue working after the subscription expires. It
also means these features work even if your Fortigate has never had the
subscription in the first place.
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VM Fortigate has a license check, which is unrelated to the Fortiguard subscription. This license check requires a non-stop online communication with the Fortiguard servers. The VM Fortigate will stop working completely, if it cannot reach Fortiguard servers for a long time (30 days usually), unless using a special, offline license (most clients don’t). |
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Security rules. The Fortigate will continue filtering
traffic according to the Security…
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Author: Yuri Slobodyanyuk
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