Set up

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 license is nominative and limited in time.

To install it, nothing could be easier, just:

• Place this file on the central server and on those hosting the Visualization UI , in the following path: /etc/shinken/user.key
• Then restart Shinken Enterprise via the command: service shinken restart

The number of authorized hosts

It is the hosts who are charged for the license countdown.

You can have that much:

• of checks you want on a host,
• as well as cluster definitions.

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.

• Exceeding hosts will be present in the Visualization UI, but will be in a disabled status:
  • they will not have checks from host templates
  • they will only have one template named "disabled"
  • their address will be changed to "disabled [ EXCEEDED license codes ]
  • their verification order will be changed to a command that always returns OK
  • their host groups will be removed
  • their data will not be hung up
  • their business impact will be reduced to 0
• The list of hosts to be supervised is determined by the Arbiter according to its order of reading the equipment, so monitored elements can vary significantly after hosts are added.