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Introduction to the Sourcefire 3D System
Licensing the Sourcefire 3D System
Chapter 1
Licensing the Sourcefire 3D System
You can license a variety of features to create an optimal Sourcefire 3D System
deployment for your organization. You must use the Defense Center to control
licenses for itself and the devices it manages.
Sourcefire recommends you add the licenses your organization has purchased
during the initial setup of your Defense Center. Otherwise, any devices you
register during initial setup are added to the Defense Center as unlicensed. You
must then enable licenses on each device individually after the initial setup
process is over. For more information, see
Setting Up a Sourcefire 3D System
A FireSIGHT license is included with each Defense Center purchase, and is
required to perform host, application, and user discovery. The FireSIGHT license
on your Defense Center also determines how many individual hosts and users
you can monitor with the Defense Center and its managed devices, as well as
how many users you can use to perform user control. FireSIGHT host and user
license limits are model specific, as listed in the following table.
If your Defense Center was previously running Version 4.10.x, you may be able to
use legacy RNA Host and RUA User licenses instead of a FireSIGHT license. For
more information, see
Using Legacy RNA Host and RUA User Licenses
page 22.
Additional model-specific licenses allow your managed devices to perform a
variety of functions, as follows:
Protection
A Protection license allows managed devices to perform intrusion detection
and prevention, file control, and Security Intelligence filtering.
FireSIGHT Limits by Defense Center Model
D
EFENSE
C
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M
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F
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SIGHT H
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AND
U
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L
IMIT
DC500
1000 (no user control)
DC750
2000
DC1000
20,000
DC1500
50,000
DC3000
100,000
DC3500
300,000
