When you allocate endpoints or users as Linked to License, the quantity and expiration date of the allocated inventory are linked to the quantity and expiration date of a term license. For example, if you have a term license for 150 Total Identity Security users with an expiration date of 31 October 2025, and you allocate users as Linked to License, the users available to the allocated account is consumed from the pool of available inventory (150 users). The allocation is subject to the expiration date of the selected term license.
If you make a change to the term license (upgrade, extend, or co-term the license) at WatchGuard.com, any allocation that is Linked to License updates to reflect the changed quantity and expiration date.
The Linked to License allocation type helps to:
- Reduce the number of steps required to allocate licenses.
- Simplify tracking of licenses and allocations between partners and their managed accounts.
- Limit the impact of overallocation in one managed to another managed account .
The Linked to License allocation type enables partners to allocate inventory from a separate license for each account they manage. When more inventory is required, partners can activate more users or endpoints for the license key at WatchGuard.com. The allocation in WatchGuard Cloud updates automatically to reflect changes to the license.
Allocation Limitations
A Service Provider account can allocate more than one product to a managed Service Provider account. They can also allocate inventory from more than one license as Linked to License to the same managed Service Provider account.
We recommend that you only use one allocation type from the same license. If an account has an existing term allocation from the same license and you allocate inventory as Linked to License, your account could become overallocated.
The managed Service Provider account can then allocate inventory from the Linked to License allocation as term or Linked to License to their managed accounts. If the managed Service Provider account allocates inventory from the Linked to License allocation to a managed account, the tier-1 Service Provider account cannot:
- Change the allocation type from Linked to License to term.
- Deallocate or remove the license.
When there is an overallocated term license in a managed Service Provider account, you cannot allocate inventory to the managed account as Linked to License. You must deallocate term users or endpoints in the account, or add more users or endpoints to your term license before you can allocate users or endpoints as Linked to License.
EDR Core is part of a Total Security Suite license. You cannot allocate EDR Core in WatchGuard Cloud as Linked to License.
You cannot allocate inventory from the same product license to a Subscriber account as term and Linked to License.
Term licenses that are purchased with MSSP points are not available for Linked to License allocations. They can only be allocated as term.
WatchGuard Endpoint Security Modules
When you allocate endpoints as Linked to License, endpoint security modules can be bundled with the endpoint security product in the same license. If you allocate endpoints as Linked to License, the entire quantity of modules in the license is allocated and the allocation expiration date is inherited from the linked license.
For information on license requirements for endpoint security modules, go to Endpoint Security Module Activation.