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Use Home License on New Sophos XGS 107?

dma0

After more than a decade of faithful service, the generic intel box I was using with the software version of Sophos XG has started failing. I was going to get another similar box, but in reading the various discussions on repurposing old XG/SG appliances, decided to take a different route and purchased a brand new Sophos XGS107 appliance, but without any license.

Given that it's a brand new license, I was wondering if it might be possible to avoid the hassle of wiping the existing drive on the appliance and activating the unit using my existing home license serial number. Does anyone know if that would work? 

On a related note, would it be better to use my existing home license serial number (which will still be running while I set up the new appliance) or instead apply for additional home license serial number and use that instead?

Any advice would be most appreciated.



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  • 0

    A question for you, don't all Sophos firewalls come with a basic licence installed, you might power it on and check?

    Ian

    XGS118 - v21.0.1 MR1

    XG115 converted to software licence v21.0.1 MR-1

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    Hello  

    this is from a new installed (yesterday) Home license:

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    Sophos SG 210 with Sophos XG Home - 20.0 MR 1

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    I have now moved on to trying to wipe the existing partitions but so far have not been able to find a boot usb that actually runs. I understand that the XGS 107 uses an x86 processor, so have tried downloading 32 bit boot drive images. I've tried Hiren's boot CD and GParted Live so far. They seem to boot but then at some point both freeze and all I see is a cursor when connected via USB console.

    Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

    • +1 in reply to dma0

      Hi dma0,

      there a some posts if you wipe the built-in disk with a live-linux that the boot-loader will not be wiped correctly. You can remove the disk and attach it to a booted system and wipe it there or (as I did): install Veeam Agent for Windows free and create a recovery media (will be a recovery-windows installed on the stick) boot it up and use Shift + F10 (cmd prompt) and use DISKPART -> lis dis (get the disk #) -> sel dis # -> clean. Reboot and reattach the Sophos Installer usb-stick and all is good. :)

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      Sophos SG 210 with Sophos XG Home - 20.0 MR 1

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      • 0 in reply to Thomas_XG

        Thank you Thomas. I noticed there were some that indicated success without needing to remove the disk and attaching it to another system and unfortunately based on purchasing decision on that. I'm sure that would work but just because of my own personal preferences decided not to take that step - didn't want to spend the additional time and effort and risk borking a perfectly good and new appliance and because I think I saw something else about drive being integrated into the 107 (i.e. non-removable). I've decided instead to try to sell the unit and proceed with my original plan (i.e. using a generic Intel server as I did for my existing firewall. 

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      As perhaps a caveat to others, if anyone is thinking of going down the same route (i.e. using a home license with an actual Sophos appliance), it may be advisable to perhaps reconsider and just buy a plain vanilla intel box. I thought using a new authentic Sophos appliance would make things easier and that's definitely not the case - it's a bit of a nightmare actually. 

      • 0 in reply to dma0

        A few years ago I got a Sophos SG 125 Rev.3, and also wanted to apply the home licence to it.
        A little bit of searching, and I found all I needed to do to apply the
        Home Licence to the Hardware device, was .....
        Delete/Rename /etc/asg -> /etc/asg.bak
        Then the new Home Licence would install without an issue.

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