Solution to Licensing Problems with Cloud License Service (CLS)

Incident Report for HP Anyware

Resolved

FYI. We are seeing a few customers reporting licensing issues. The solution to the problem is published in a KB located here :
https://anyware.hp.com/knowledge/solution-to-licensing-problems-with-cloud-license-service-cls

Root Cause:
This is happening to customers that have not kept their list of Trusted Root Certification Authorities up to date.

Best Practice:
As part of security best practices, the industry has moved away from long lived root/intermediate certificates.
As part of these recommendations, it is imperative that the “Trusted Root Certification Authorities” is kept up to date.
A good article on why this is the case, can be found here from DigiCert:
https://knowledge.digicert.com/alerts/digicert-expiring-public-root-and-intermediate-ca-certificates

Solution:
For customers that have not kept their Trusted Root Certification Authorities up to date, instructions on how to fix can be found here:
https://anyware.hp.com/knowledge/troubleshooting-device-registration-to-the-anyware-cloud-license-server-cls

Need additional help:
Anyware Support agents are on standby and are available to help customers.
Raise a case via: https://anyware.hp.com/support/technical-support
When raising a case, assign the subject as “Need help updating the list of Trusted Root Certification Authorities”.
Add in your call back number. The support will provide additional guidance and arrange a call back session.
Posted Feb 10, 2025 - 18:56 PST
This incident affected: Cloud License Server.