Licensing

The FortiNBI license controls how many services are allowed to connect to the FortiProxy. Each seat allows one service to connect. When the license is full, no more services can connect to FortiProxy and traffic from unconnected services is bypass ed with no FortiNBI security checks. If the FortiProxy cannot connect to FortiGuard (such as when it is not licensed) then the default FortiNBI seat count is 10 for VM devices and 100 for hardware devices.

FortiNBI licenses support license sharing for HA and security fabric. In HA mode, seats from different FortiProxy devices are added together to act as a single FortiProxy. In a security fabric, seats from the root FortiProxy and downstream FortiProxy devices are merged into a pool and dynamically allocated to the FortiProxy devices.

The FortiGuard license contract name for FortiNBI is PXCB (FortiProxy client browser isolation).

To view the license status on the FortiProxy:

# get system fortiguard
...
fnbi-license        : Contract, no sharing, seat: 100
fnbi-expiration     : Sun Sep 10 2023
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