

Otherwise the system will not know you have licensed it in your account. If the CHR instance will not be able to renew the license it will behave as if the trial period has ran out and will not allow an upgrade of RouterOS to a newer version.Īfter licensing a running trial system, you must manually run the /system license renew function from the CHR to make it active. A running CHR instance will indicate the time when it has to access the account server to renew it's license. It is possible to transfer a perpetual license to another CHR instance. Perpetual is a lifetime license (buy once, use forever). To get the free trial license, you have to have an account on as all license management is done there. The CHR has 4 license levels:Ħ0-day free trial license is available for all paid license levels. include 15-30 day free support over e-mailĬloud Hosted Router (CHR) is a RouterOS version intended for running as a virtual machine.(*) - BGP is included in License Level3 only for RouterBOARDs, for other devices you need Level4 or above to have BGP.

Licensing information can be read from CLI system console:Error rendering macro 'code': Invalid value specified for parameter '.' > /system license print

The license key is a block of symbols that needs to be copied from your account, or from the email you received in, and then it can be pasted into the router. PC devices), you need to obtain a license key. RouterBOARD devices come preinstalled with a RouterOS license, if you have purchased a RouterBOARD device, nothing must be done regarding the license.įor X86 systems (i.e.
