2.4 Understanding Licensing

This section provides information about the following:

2.4.1 Evaluation Licenses

By default, a new installation of Change Guardian server includes evaluation licenses for Change Guardian and all applications. The default evaluation license allows you to use all the features of Change Guardian during for a specific evaluation period.

When you restore events from the server whose license expired to a server having a new license, the event dates are adjusted according to the new license.

NOTE:To prevent any interruption in functionality, you must add an enterprise license before the evaluation license expires. To purchase the enterprise license, contact Micro Focus Customer Care.

2.4.2 Enterprise Licenses

When you purchase the Change Guardian enterprise license, you receive the license keys and registration codes through the customer portal, including the following:

  • HTML license key for the Change Guardian server

  • XML license keys for each licensed applications (such as Active Directory or NetApp share)

  • For appliance installation, you will also get an alphanumeric registration code to register your Change Guardian appliance to the appliance update channel

There might be additional license terms not enforced by the license key, therefore, read your license agreement carefully. To make changes to your licensing, contact Micro Focus Customer Care.

You can add the enterprise license key either during the installation or any time thereafter.

2.4.3 Application Licenses

You require an application license to enable Change Guardian to monitor the specific application. For information about the number of licenses required for each application, see the following table:

Application Name

License Count

Windows

Number of monitored Windows servers or workstations

UNIX

Number of monitored UNIX, Linux, or UNIX-derivative servers or workstations

Microsoft Active Directory and Group Policy

Number of enabled active users in Active Directory

Number of enabled active users in Group Policy

NetApp

Number of monitored NetApp instances

Microsoft Azure Active Directory

Number of enabled active users in Azure Active Directory

Microsoft Exchange Server

Number of active Exchange users

Dell EMC

Number of monitored Dell EMC instances

AWS (Identity)

Number of active AWS identities

Office 365 (Exchange Online)

Number of active users in Exchange Online