Setting up the license
Shinken Enterprise operates with a license in the form of an operating key (Nominal license). The key will be provided to you by Shinken Solution or by a Shinken Enterprise reseller allowing you to fully use the product.
The license is a file with the following name: user.key and this . This license is nominative and limited in time.
To install it, nothing could be easier, just:
- Place this file on the central server (the one hosting the Arbiter and Synchronizer daemons) and on those hosting the Visualization UI, in the following path: /etc/shinken/user.key
Then restart Shinken Enterprise via the command:
Code Block service shinken restart
Number of authorized hosts
It is the hosts who are charged for the license countdownThe license limits the number of hosts that can be monitored by the Shinken Enterprise installation.
You can have that much:
of- As much checks as you want on a host
- As much clusters definitions as you want
If the host limit is exceeded, your Shinken Enterprise platform will continue to operate but will only be monitored for the number of hosts specified in your license will be monitored.
- Exceeding hosts will be present in the Visualization UI, but will be in a disabled status:
- they They will not have checks from host templates
- they They will only have one template named "disabled"
- their Their address will be changed to "disabled [ EXCEEDED license codes ]"
- Their check command their verification order will be changed to a command that always returns OK
- their Their host groups will be removed
- their The data defined on hosts will not be hung uptaken into account
- Their their business impact will be reduced set to 0
- The list of hosts to be supervised monitored is determined by the Arbiter according to its order of reading the equipment, so . The monitored hosts list will be determined by the Arbiter and the order in which it reads the configuration, so the list of monitored elements can vary significantly after when hosts are added.