fwm: no license

Cause

Firewall-1, version 2.1 and produces the message when the fwstart command is issued or fwm is started from the command line.

There are two possible reasons for this.

The first is when a firewall module is installed without a control station on the same machine, the messages are displayed on the console (under Unix) or in the event log (under WinNT)

The second is that the messages may be legitimate. You may find that fwm has not started and you cannot do some crucial tasks. One problem may be that the license is issued for the wrong hostid.

Action

Check that the license daemon is running on the server. Then...

Case one: Workaround: Ignore the messages. Solution: Upgrade to 2.1c or above.

Case two: To check for a misassigned license, run the command hostid(1). Your hostid is displayed.

Now run the command fw printlic. You will see output like this...

This is FireWall-1 Version 2.1
Type             Expiration Features
id-649f152b	 never	    stdlight