licensing question concerning IP addresses

[RobMcKennon]

Hello!
I just spoke with sales, and heard that the licensing supports 3 instances, but they are IP based. I basically need 2 instances, one for production and one for our test environment. The issue is that our test environment will exactly mimic production. i.e. both nagios instances will have the same private IP address, but yet they both will have internet access via NAT. Will this be an issue?

Rob McKennon
MainStreet Softworks


p.s. Should I add another IP to the NIC for licensing purposes? They will be running on CentOS-6.5.

[abrist]

This should not cause any issues, but if the nat ever breaks down, you will see really odd behavior, but you knew that

[sreinhardt]

I'd like to clarify this a bit and add to abrit's post. We don't license by IP's or anything of that nature, it is purely controlled by number of active hosts on the XI system. That being said, we do use the IP for activation, and only for that. If that IP does change, or you have a duplicate, it should not cause issues or need reactivation. Aside from hosts, the only other limitation would be in relation to the 3 install limit, 1 production, 1 test, and 1 backup or failover. The key with the last two, is that they may not be actively checking anything including another nagios instance, but the actual system may be live and getting data replicated from production, simply that checking and nagios services need to be stopped. Additionally, that test system cannot be checking live production systems in a fashion designed to alert on real issues, that must be left to production. Otherwise it can definitely temporarily test things, or in your case be put in a pci testing zone without issue. Hope that helps!

[RobMcKennon]

Thank you both for the clarifacation!

Rob.

[sreinhardt]

You're welcome! Locking this up. Let me know if you would like this reopened for further questions.