Note that B1TD Essentials is licenced per member. If the member is a HA pair of two nodes, you only need one licence and another license for $0 will be issued.

The DNSFW/RPZ license (IB-SWTL-DFW-TE-xxxx) is sold per node. In a HA-Pair, you will need two DNSFW licenses - one per HA-Pair member.

For expiry details here and here, between 8.0 and 8.2, the subscription behaviour didn't work as it does today. 8.3.6+ to 8.4 and all beyond, this was fixed. Changed to DNS and DHCP after subscription expiry should work.

This is the list of licenses when running set temp_license in a virtual NIOS appliance.

• DNSone (DNS, DHCP)
• DNSone with Grid (DNS, DHPC, Grid)
• Network Services for Voice (DHCP, Grid)
• Add NIOS License (causes a system restart)
• Add DNS Server license
• Add DHCP Server license
• Add Grid license
• Add Microsoft management license
• Add Multi-Grid Management license
• Add Query Redirection license
• Add Response Policy Zones license
• Add FireEye license
• Add DNS Traffic Control license
• Add Cloud Network Automation license
• Add Security Ecosystem license
• Add Flex Grid Activation license
• Add Flex Grid Activation for Managed Services license

If you set the NIOS license to IB-v5005 (or after you join the Grid), you will see that set temp_license generates a much smaller list (3 insetad of 16).

• Add NIOS License
• Add Grid license
• Add Reporting subscription license

This ist list list of NIOS Licenses you can add

• IB-V805
• CP-V805
• IB-V815
• IB-V1405
• CP-V1405
• IB-V1415
• IB-V14125
• IB-V2205
• CP-V2205
• IB-V2215
• IB-V2225
• IB-V4005
• IB-V4015
• IB-V4025
• IB-V5005 (Reporting Server)

When a license is renewed, the support portal is automatically updated. However, for NIOS appliances you will need to redownload the appliance licence key and install it via the Grid Master GUI.

First deploy the VM.

You may also want to enable remote console access to the VM.

1. Log into the CLI of the VM and run show hwid to show the VM ID and make a note of it. You will need it later. You can also get this Hardware ID from the Grid Manager Web UI: Grid > Licenses and the data is in the Serial Number column.
2. Log into the Infoblox Support Portal - https://support.infoblox.com/
3. Click “My Products” on the menu at the top of the page.
4. Go to “Subscriptions” and you should see the list of licences purchased. If you are a distributer, you may have to “Filter Customer” at the top of the screen. Verify that the number of subscriptions matches what you are expecting.
5. Go to “Hosts” and you should see that Infoblox have helpfully pre-populated entries for the new VMs with random serial numbers and SKU of “IB-VM”.
6. Click “Create Virtual Host”.
7. Paste the Hardware ID into the field “Virtual Host Hardware ID”.
8. Set License Technology to “DDI”
9. Click “Save & Assign Software”. This will take you to the screen to assign software to this VM. It will start off by saying “There is no Software assigned to this Host”. Further down the screen you can see a list of “Software available to be assigned to Host”. Take a note of “Total Quantity” and “Available Quantity”.
10. What I do at this stage is find the entry for the NIOS licence (e.g. “IB-SWTL-BASE-NIOS-825”). Click the + symbol to add this license and you should find that the other licences for the VM get added automatically (e.g. IB-SWLT-GD and IB-SWTL-NS1).
11. Click “Assign Software” and the licenses should appear at the top of the screen.
12. Click “Download License Keys”. and then click “Download” to download the licences as a TXT file.
13. Open up the Grid Master GUI and go to Grid > Licenses > Member.
14. “Upload License File” and then “Select File”.
15. Select the TXT file you downloaded earlier.
16. Then click “Save Licenses” on the right.

I've not seen what happens on a production Infoblox Grid that lets the subscriptions expire. However, I have seen what happens when a 60 day trial Grid has its subscriptions expire.

• You can still query existing zone.
• You can still update existing records and create new records in existing zones.
• You can create new zones but they can't be queried.
• If you restart the appliance, the DNS server stops functioning.

When you set a Grid Wide License, you must create a VM in the support portal using the Grid UUID.

show license_uid