Licensing EventSentry

EventSentry requires a valid license to run, currently we have trial and full licenses available. EventSentry Light does not currently require a license, but has many features disabled.

A license (applies to trial and full licenses) consists of the following information:

You will need to enter the license information, including the number of licenses, exactly as it appears in the confirmation email you received from NETIKUS.NET. All information is case sensitive, and a single wrong character will invalidate your license. It is recommended that you copy/paste all information from the email.

Since all monitored machines need a valid license, you can use remote update to send license information to all monitored machines. Licensing information is automatically updated when you perform the following remote update features:

Note that you will need to restart the agent in order to reread the license information. This is particularly important when switching from a trial to a full license.

A trial license allows you to evaluate EventSentry for a limited amount of time so that you can determine whether it fits your network monitoring needs. The evaluation period is currently 45 days and may be extended for another 21 days upon request.

When you have completed your evaluation of EventSentry then you can purchase the full version. Upon completion of your purchase you will receive a license key to permanently activate your trial version so that EventSentry will not expire.

The full license allows you to use EventSentry on as many computers as you purchased licenses for. Full licenses do not expire, however support and updates expire one year after the original purchase date.

Regular agent licenses are required for each host running Microsoft Windows where you want to monitor the event log and/or system health. Monitoring the event logs and system health require the use of an agent, hence the license type is Agent.

You can use heartbeat / network device licenses when you are monitoring computers through the heartbeat or network services feature but are not installing the EventSentry agents on those machines. This applies to Unix/Linux computers and network devices like routers, switches etc..

Note: The network services service requires at least a 10-host heartbeat / network device license.

See the next chapters for information and screenshots on how to correctly enter license information.