Urchin Q and A: How Urchin 6 Licensing Works

Question: How does Urchin 6 licensing work?

Answer: The Urchin activation process is as follows:

When installing a serial code, your Urchin machine sends the serial code and key code to the Urchin licensing server.

Urchin verifies these two values and returns a license key enabling the customer to complete the installation through the following process:

1. ugetlicense utility automates the sending of the serial code and key code to the Urchin license center

2. A unique license key is returned and written to the Urchin configuration. You can use uconf-export to export your Urchin configuration which contains this value

3. The key code is computed using:

* Inode numbers of configuration database files (Unix systems)
* System identifiers (Windows systems)
* Note that the IP address is NOT used in the license key!
* Also note that copying Urchin config databases or moving Urchin to another disk or partition will change the computed key code

4. Once activated no further network-based license authentication is done by any Urchin component.