license inspect

Enterprise

Appropriate Vault Enterprise license required

The license inspect command describes the contents of a signed license string.

Examples

Describe a HashiCorp license in the environment (either VAULT_LICENSE for a raw value or VAULT_LICENSE_PATH for the path to a file containing the value):

$ vault license inspect
Source: /Users/ncc/vaults/license
Signature: valid
Format: valid
Issuer: hashicorp
Customer ID: 5401ae3b-136b-3e47-3b43-432927fa03e7
Entitlements:

    Product: vault
    License ID: 060d7820-fa59-f95c-832b-395db0aeb9ba
    Architecture:
      *
    OS:
      *
    Edition: N/A
    Add On: N/A
    Issue Time: 2021-05-17 19:33:47.93981585 +0000 UTC
    Start Time: 2021-05-17 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
    Expiration Time: 2022-05-17 23:59:59.999 +0000 UTC
    Termination Time: 2031-05-17 23:59:59.999 +0000 UTC
    Installation ID: *
    Non-Production: false
    Flags:
      modules: [multi-dc-scale governance-policy advanced-data-protection-key-management advanced-data-protection-transform]

License is valid

Describe an IBM Passport Advantage Online license at a given path:

$ vault license inspect ~/vaults/pao.lic
Source: /Users/ncc/vaults/pao.lic
Signature: valid
Format: valid
Issuer: pao.ibm.com
Customer ID: eyJraWQiOiI4ZmMxYzZkNS1jOTRjLTQ0NDktYTA3NC0zNDUwNTFhMDg0OGEiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJzaXRlbnVtIjoiMDAwMTAwMDAwOSJ9.qfyDYMgswJ0h-r9bBwt5rrMSXxESsAKRu8WLaDOLurmEsExy9fI2-Uknv5sT59DgRsHL6QNWJm9enk_n53wF_LyStaVuZNHoaIIc6AM9s4fMJwnDglq1TDjisqRzkHfyOnlGTLZV_WvbHNK3gIDYOGyid3FiSBY72wqTPb2843RRfN0KVLvRIH5WW6Usz0AsR5mt5ayvCLKCyHNpJ8sXKy6lUSFQ-o5XE3pftLABr6fPDOlNfIi_mktMdw-LUs8agnD0T6dASAAlRaoAmUtawwqZCbcwlRNIyrMRGTi3Xwt6NkStRwuoLxg4ALhXgfB8EuiB7H68Ohlu_c4S0_y_vg
Entitlements:

    Product: vault
    License ID: 0000095113
    Architecture:
      distributed
    OS:
      *
    Edition: premium
    Add On: N/A
    Issue Time: 2025-08-19 09:52:32 -0700 PDT
    Start Time: 2025-03-22 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
    Expiration Time: 2028-12-31 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
    Termination Time: 2029-03-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
    Installation ID: *
    Non-Production: false
    Flags:
      modules: [multi-dc-scale governance-policy]

License is valid

Usage

The following flags are available in addition to the standard set of flags included on all commands.

Command options

-product (string: "") - Name of the product to validate the license against