6
VM-Series
Deployment
Guide
License the VM-Series Firewall
About the VM-Series Firewall
Register the VM-Series Firewall
Use the instructions in this section to register your capacity auth-code with your support account.
Create a Support Account
1.
Log in to
https://support.paloaltonetworks.com
.
2.
Click
Register
and fill in the details in the user registration form. You must use the capacity auth-code and the sales
order number or customer ID to register and create an account on the support portal.
3.
Submit
the form. You will receive an email with a link to activate the user account; complete the steps to activate the
account.
After your account is verified and the registration is complete, you will be able to log in and download the software
package required to install the VM-Series firewall.
Register the VM-Series Firewall
1.
Log in to
https://support.paloaltonetworks.com
with your account credentials.
2.
Select
Assets
and click
Add VM-Series Auth-Codes
.
3.
In the
Add VM-Series Auth-Code
field, enter the capacity auth-code you received by email, and click the checkmark
on the far right to save your input. The page will display the list of auth-codes registered to your support account.
You can track the number of VM-Series firewalls that have been deployed and the number of licenses that are still
available for use against each auth-code. When all the available licenses are used, the auth-code does not display on
the VM-Series Auth-Codes page. To view all the assets that are deployed, select
Assets > Devices
.