Unregistered State

The Firewall Management Center can become unregistered in the following situations:

• Evaluation mode expiration—Evaluation mode expires after 90 days.

• Manual deregistration of the Firewall Management Center

• Lack of communication with the Smart Software Manager—The Firewall Management Center does not communicate with the Smart Software Manager for 1 year. Note: After 90 days, the Firewall Management Center authorization expires, but it can successfully resume communication within one year to automatically re-authorize. After a year, the ID certificate expires, and the Firewall Management Center is removed from your account so you will have to manually re-register the Firewall Management Center.

In an unregistered state, the Firewall Management Center cannot deploy any configuration changes to devices for features that require licenses.