It seems that in one of the recent releases (within the past 2 years), that pausing a sensor no longer frees up the license for that sensor. In the past, we use to pause sensors of ports, or perhaps entire devices, to keep for historical purposes. This was beneficial to report if additional bandwidth was needed for a site or to our internet providers. To hopefully make this more understandable, the scenario is like this:
1) Sensor is setup for Port 1 on a 1Gb port and runs for two years. 2) Traffic is now exceeding SLA's so we upgrade the circuit to 10Gbps on Port 2. 3) We would Auto-Discover the switch and many of the ports that would come up would go straight to paused due to licensing. for the new Port 2 and begin monitoring (consuming the license of the paused sensor). 4) Seeing that we had no more licenses, we would pause the Port 1 sensor. We have no intentions to do further monitoring of that port, but would like to keep historical data points for 2 additional years for future reporting. 5) We would then find the newly created port 2 sensor and tell it to start monitoring on that port, which it would since the other sensor was paused..
It seems that somewhere along the way, a paused sensor now still counts against the licensing count. Is this by design or was it accidentally added in? Is there a way to mark the sensor as archived, releasing the license count, but yet holding the data?
Also as a side-note, I'd like to voice my distaste for the CAPTCHA you are using. Often it asks to identify an object that it doesn't have correctly cataloged. This means I have to keep clicking until I think like a computer. If an object carries across more than one frame, you fail as it has to meet a certain percentage. Why would I need to identify my self as human when I'm logged into a verified account? Why isn't my CAPTCHA info not-being held in session state?
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