We are interested in setting up integrated authentication (SAML Authentication) for the management host. We understand that this feature requires a CNX license.
To use the SAML feature, do all our end devices need to be CNX licensed, or can some be on the free tier “Essentials”?
cnMaestro X is an account-level program, not a device-level program, although the license scheme is based on the number of devices in the account. You only get access to cnMaestro X features when you have licenses for all the devices in the account (excluding free tier devices such as subscriber modules).
For cnMaestro On-Premises, you may have multiple server instances connected to an Anchor account. The licenses are stored in the Anchor account, and for each server instance you can choose whether or not to let it use licenses from the Anchor account.