ISE 3 - licensing and one device wired and wireless at same time

[Tibor M]

Hi,

trying to figure out how ISE will count licensing when 1 laptop is connected at same time through wired 802.1X either wireless.

The situation is, that we are pushing WiFi profile to all Windows machines through GPO and setting there "automatically connect", so each laptop is connecting now automatically using certificates and 802.1X on ISE. But each laptop can be at same time connected to docking station, which provides wired connectivity.

Is there any way how to tell ISE - hey, this laptop has 2 MACs, one user, count it as one endpoint?

Thanks

[Arne Bier]

Nope - two unique MAC addresses will count as two different ISE endpoints - depending on how you authorized each of those MAC addresses, will count towards an Essentials, Advantage or Premier license. No way around it.  Perhaps you can write some kind of a script on the laptop to shut the Wi-Fi down while the Ethernet adapter has a valid connection, and vice-versa.