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Activate the Deployment Profile

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Activate the Deployment Profile

Ensure to activate additional licenses on your tenants if you have enrolled to a cloud service subscription (consisting of IoT, SaaS Inline, SCM Pro, and SLS).
If you have enrolled to a cloud service subscription (consisting of IoT, SaaS Inline, Strata Cloud Manager Pro, and Strata Logging Service), you will need to activate additional licenses on your tenants after you create a deployment profile on the Customer Support Portal. You will find the deployment profile that you need to activate, listed under Current Deployment Profiles.
  1. After you create a deployment profile, click Finish SetUp against the deployment profile you created.
    In case of Deployment profiles with no cloud based subscription, you will not view the Finish SetUp link.
    You will be prompted with authentication to SSO after which you will view the Activate Subscriptions based on the deployment profiles page.
  2. Login to the HUB with your SSO.
  3. Click Subscriptions and Add-ons and click the tenant in which your deployment profile is created. You will view the Activate Subscriptions based on Deployment Profiles page.
  4. Select the Customer Support Portal account that you are subscribed to.
  5. Select or Create the required tenant and the region it belongs to.
  6. Select the deployment profile that you wish to associate with the selected tenant. You can also search for the deployment profile using its name or auth code.
    If you have not subscribed to any of the cloud services, you will still be able to view the deployment profile in this section.
    The status of the deployment profiles is listed as Available or Not available and the required dependency to make the deployment profile available is also listed. The Deployment Profiles listed as available can be associated with the tenant.
    The deployment profiles listed as Not available might have a missing or a conflicting service under the selected tenant. For example, if you have a deployment profile with Strata Cloud Manager Pro subscription that is associated with a TSG, and another deployment profile with AIOps subscription, the deployment profiles will be listed as available. However, you won't be able to activate the deployment profile with AIOps under the same TSG, and this will result in an error due to conflicting services. If you have a deployment profile with Strata Cloud Manager Pro, then you must not associate some profiles with Strata Cloud Manager Pro, some with Strata Logging Service and some with no subscription. Ensure that you associate all the profiles with Strata Cloud Manager Pro.
  7. Select the Additional Services that you would like all your flex firewall devices to be associated with.
    Selecting an additional service onboards all Flex firewalls to the Cloud Identity Engine. If you unselect any of the additional services, the system dissociates all Flex firewalls associated with the tenant from that service.
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  8. Agree to the terms and conditions and click Activate.
    Tenant provisioning takes approximately 15–50 minutes. During this process, the Profile Association Status on the hub displays Associating. Once provisioning is complete, the Finish Setup link disappears automatically.
  9. The registered devices are viewed at Common Services > Device Associations on the hub.
    Alternatively, if you don't wish to activate the deployment profile through Finish SetUp, you can navigate to Common Services > Subscriptions & Add-ons. You will find the deployment profile under the Ready for Activation section. Click Activate Now to activate the deployment profile.

Remove Deployment Profile Association From a TSG

To remove a deployment profile from a TSG:
  1. On the hub, go to Common Services > Tenant Management > Deployment Profiles.
  2. Click the ellipses (⋮) next to the deployment profile you want to remove the association and click Remove Association.
  3. Click Delete on the confirmation dialog.
    The system notifies the CSP super user whenever a deployment profile is added or removed from a TSG.

Scenarios during Deployment Profile Activation

The following are some of the use case scenarios you might face while activating a deployment profile.
  1. A deployment profile can be associated with only one Tenant Service Group (TSG) at a time. If you need to use it with another TSG:
    1. Remove the required deployment profile from the tenant. This action removes all VM-Series devices from the tenant and all associated data will be lost.
    2. Navigate to the required TSG and associate the deployment profile with it.
  2. You cannot associate a TSG with two deployment profiles with one of them using Strata Cloud Manager Pro and the other using Strata Logging Service. All the deployment profiles linked to a TSG must use either Strata Cloud Manager Pro or Strata Logging Service.
  3. In case of an upgrade scenario, where you have a subscription to Strata Logging Service and need Cloud Management and ADEM:
    1. You will need to upgrade to only Strata Cloud Manager Pro. The new prices will be calculated as per the new subscription and the Finish SetUp link appears again.
      The Profile Association Status for the SLS deployment profile on the hub will now change from Complete to Pending.
    2. Agree to the Terms and Conditions on the Activate Subscriptions based on the Deployment Profile window and click Activate Now.
      The SCM deployment profile will now spin up and after the Profile Association Status turns to complete, the Finish SetUp link disappears.
  4. If you wish to remove all the VMFlex devices from the association of Cloud Identity Engine on a TSG, then,
    1. Select the required TSG from the Activate Subscriptions based on Deployment Profile(s) page
    2. Uncheck the Associate Cloud Identity Engine on this tenant checkbox. This will dissociate all the VMFlex devices that are associated with the TSG and not one device. Click Activate.
    3. Check the Agree to the Terms and Conditions.
    4. Click Activate.

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