Applies To: WatchGuard Core MDR for Microsoft, WatchGuard Total MDR
We recommend that you co-term your licenses to make renewals easier and to get a better price for each user at renewal.
When you co-terminate or co-term licenses, you consolidate or merge your licenses to synchronize renewal dates. This makes it easier to manage and renew your licenses.
Each time you activate a WatchGuard Core MDR for Microsoft or WatchGuard Total MDR license key and choose to add users or extend a license, your new license is merged with the selected license and the two licenses are co-termed. Co-termed licenses are merged together and a new expiration date is calculated based on the updated user count and the term length of the license you activated.
When Service Providers activate a license, they have the option to co-term the new Core MDR for Microsoft license with another active Core MDR for Microsoft license or to activate it as a separate license. This enables Service Providers to keep their customer licenses separate.
Because Subscriber accounts can only have one WatchGuard Core MDR for Microsoft or WatchGuard Total MDR license, when a Subscriber activates a new license key it is automatically co-termed with the current active license and either extends the expiration date or increases the user count based on the option chosen when the license is activated.
As a Service Provider, whether you choose to co-term your licenses or activate a new license, all users go to your inventory in WatchGuard Cloud and can be allocated to any account. Users from one license can be allocated to different managed accounts.
Renewal Date Calculation for Co-Termed Licenses
When you co-term licenses, they are merged together and a new expiration date is calculated based on the updated user count and the term length of the license you activated. The only exception to this is if you choose to extend the license and reduce the user count. In that case, the user count is reduced immediately.
WatchGuard Core MDR for Microsoft licenses expire on the expiration date at 00:00 UTC. For more information on license expiration, go to License Expiration.
When you co-term two licenses, this calculation determines the expiration date:
| New Expiration Date = | Today's Date + | (current user count x days until license expires) + (purchased user count x term days) |
| final user count |
All values in these examples are for illustrative purposes only.
You have a license for 20 users that expires in 45 days, and you want to add 10 users on a 1 year license (you purchased a 10 users license with a 1 year term length). To do so, you activate your license and select Add Users in the license activation wizard.
To calculate the new expiration date for your license, use the co-term calculation formula with these values:
- Current user count = 20
- Days until license expires = 45
- Purchased user count = 10
- Term days for purchased users= 365
- Final user count = 30 user (20 + 10)
| New Expiration Date = | Today's Date + | (20 users x 45 days) + (10 users x 365 days) |
| 30 users |
When we calculate the value in the formula above, we get 4,550 ÷ 30 = 151.67. We round this value up to 152. So, the new expiration date for 30 users is 152 days from the activation date of your new license.
You have a 1 year license for 10 users that expires in 200 days, and you want to add 50 users on a 3 year license (you purchased a 50 users license with a 3 year term length). To do so, you activate your license and select Add Users in the license activation wizard.
To calculate the new expiration date for your license, use the co-term calculation formula with these values:
- Current user count = 10
- Days until license expires = 200
- Purchased user count = 50
- Term days for purchased user= 365 x 3
- Final user count = 60 (10 + 50)
| New Expiration Date = | Today's Date + | (10 users x 200 days) + (50 users x 365 days x 3) |
| 60 users |
When we calculate the value in the formula above, we get 56,750 ÷ 60 = 945.83. We round this value up to 946. So, the new expiration date for 60 users is 946 days from the activation date of your new license.
You have a license for 100 users that expires in 10 days, and you want to renew your license and also add 50 additional users on a 1 year license (you purchased a 150 users license with a 1 year term length). To do so, you activate your license and select Extend License in the license activation wizard.
To calculate the new expiration date for your license, use the co-term calculation formula with these values:
- Current user count = 100
- Days until license expires = 10
- Purchased user count = 150
- Term days for purchased user= 365
- Final user count = 150 users (100 renewed + 50 added)
| New Expiration Date = | Today's Date + | (100 users x 10 days) + (150 users x 365 days) |
| 150 users |
When we calculate the value in the formula above, we get 55,750 ÷ 150 = 371.67. We round this value up to 372. So, the new expiration date for 150 users is 372 days from the activation date of your new license.
You have a license for 100 users that expired 10 days ago, and you want to renew your license for another year (you purchased a 100 users license with a 1 year term length). To do so, you activate your license and select Extend License in the license activation wizard.
To calculate the new expiration date for your license, use the co-term calculation formula with these values:
- Current user count = 100
- Days until license expires = −10
- Purchased user count = 100
- Term days for purchased users = 365
- Final user count = 100 user
| New Expiration Date = | Today's Date + | (100 users x -10 days) + (100 users x 365 days) |
| 100 users |
When we calculate the value in the formula above, we get 35,500 ÷ 100 = 355. So, the new expiration date for your 100 users is 355 days from the activation date of your new license (the term length of your new license minus the 10 days).
You have a license for 100 users that expires in 10 days, and you want to renew your license for another year with only 80 users (you purchased an 80 user license with a 1 year term length). To do so, you activate your license and select Extend License in the license activation wizard.
When you renew your license with fewer users, you should do so near your expiration date. If you activate the license key before your expiration date, your user count is reduced immediately.
To calculate the new expiration date for your license, use the co-term calculation formula with these values:
- Current user count = 100
- Days until license expires = 10
- Purchased user count = 80
- Term days for purchased users= 365
- Final user count = 80 users
| New Expiration Date = | Today's Date + | (100 users x 10 days) + (80 users x 365 days) |
| 80 users |
When we calculate the value in the formula above, we get 30,200 ÷ 80 = 377.5. We round this value up to 378. So, the new expiration date for your 80 users is 378 days from the activation date of your new license.