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Managing the Firebox and User Accounts
196 WatchGuard Firebox X Edge
About Seat Licenses
The Firebox® X Edge is enabled with a specified number, or “pool,”
of seat licenses. The number of seat licenses puts a limit on how
many users can get out to the Internet at one time. The total num-
ber of available seat licenses in the pool is set by the Edge model
you have and any upgrade licenses you apply.
The Firebox Users page (below Active Sessions) shows how many
active sessions there are, and how many of those sessions use seat
licenses. This page also shows the maximum number of seat licenses
allowed.
An active session does not always use a seat license. You only use a
seat license when you send traffic from the trusted or optional net-
work to the external network. You do not use a seat license when
you make connections between computers on the trusted network.
You also do not use a seat license when you make connections
through a VPN tunnel. Because you cannot connect to the external
network, you create an active session, but do not use a seat license.
If you make users authenticate before they connect to the external
network, you can make sure that no seat licenses are used by unau-
thorized computers. If authentication is required, and a user or com-
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