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Copyrights
All copyrights to Advanced Host Monitor (hereinafter the SOFTWARE) are exclusively owned by the authors - Alexandre Kozlov and Advanced Network Software (hereinafter the OWNER). The Owner retains ownership of all materials (including Software and documentation), any modifications or derivative works based on the Software are considered part of the Software and the Owner thereof retains ownership.
Licenses:
Advanced Host Monitor is not free software however anyone may use this software during a test period of 30 days under terms of Evaluation License. Following this test period, if you wish to continue to use the Software, you MUST purchase Educational, Commercial or Service Provider license.
 
Evaluation License   Educational/Non-profit License
Evaluation and Registration

Subject to the terms below, you are hereby licensed to use this software for evaluation purposes, without charge, for a period of 30 days. If you use this software after the 30 day evaluation period a registration fee is required.

Distribution of Evaluation Version

Provided you verify that you are distributing the evaluation version (see License window to check) you are hereby licensed to make as many copies of the evaluation version of this software and documentation as you wish; distribute exact copies of the original evaluation version to anyone; and distribute the evaluation version of the software and documentation in its unmodified form via electronic means. There is no charge for any of these actions. You are specifically prohibited from charging, or requesting donations, for any such copies, however made; and from distributing the software and/or documentation with other products (commercial or otherwise) without prior written permission.

Unregistered use of this program after the 30-day evaluation period is in violation of international copyright laws. 		  We offer Educational/Non-profit licenses at lower prices or better conditions (e.g. we offer extended "free updates" term for Lite and Standard licenses; lower prices for the following updates).
This non-exclusive, non-transferable license allows you to use Advanced Host Monitor internally for your own non-commercial purposes.

To get an educational/non-profit license, you must be:
  • A government or non-profit educational institution, like a public school or state university; or
  • A non-profit organization, association or entity with an educational purpose, like a community group, public service or public health organization, disability service provider or faith-based organization; or
  • A government or non-profit entity providing local public safety or transportation service, like a volunteer fire department, local government or state transportation authority.
Non-Profit organizations with current proof of 501(c)3 non-profit status are eligible to purchase Educational/Non-Profit versions of the Software. Non-Profit organizations outside the U.S. will need to meet similar requirements for their respective country.
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Commercial License   Service Provider License
This non-exclusive, non-transferable license allows you (hereinafter the LICENSEE) to use the Software internally for your own commercial and non-commercial purposes.

The Licensee may install and use the Software on a computer system or systems located at Licensee's company, including branches and affiliates to which the Licensee has authorized access. Use of the Software is restricted to Licensee and collaborators within his company who have agreed to accept the terms of this license.

For example, if you have some commercial Web or SQL servers that provide services to your customers, you may use the Software to monitor such servers. Also you may use the Software to monitor any auxiliary commercial or non-commercial servers, devices and services used within your company.
However you cannot use the Software to monitor Web, SQL or any other kind of servers and services that belong entirely to your customers. In order to provide such service you need to purchase Service Provider License.

The Licensee must abide with any relevant legal obligations, including respect of copyright, use of trademarks, and other relevant legal requirements. 		  This non-exclusive, non-transferable license allows service providers to deliver monitoring solutions to end customers on a rental, subscription or services basis. You may make Software functionality accessible to your end users in an extranet deployment.

Service Provider License (SPL) allows the Licensee to monitor any kind of devices, servers and services that belong to the Licensee, Licensee's customers or any other 3rd party. Holder of SPL license may install components of the Software on a computer system or systems located at any location to which the Licensee has authorized access.
For example you may install HostMonitor and Web Service on your own system and install Remote Monitoring Agents (RMA) and Remote Control Consoles (RCC) on systems that belong to your customers.

The Service Provider must provide first-line technical support to their customers. The Owner will provide the Service Provider with full back-up for second and third line technical support queries.

The Service Provider and their customers must abide with any legal obligations, including respect of copyright, use of trademarks, and other legal requirements.
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Common terms and conditions
  Installations:


The single license allows you to install the software on ONE system. If you want to have installed application on a number of systems then you have to purchase the same number of licenses. The same rule is applicable to any of the auxiliary tools of Advanced Host Monitor package. Example: if you want to install HostMonitor on 1 system and start Remote Control Console (RCC) on 2 different systems, you need 1 license for HostMonitor and 2 licenses for RCC.
When your licensing scheme includes several applications, you may spread components (applications) between several systems. For example Enterprise package includes 1 HostMonitor, 1 RMA Manager, 10 licenses for Remote Monitoring Agents and other components. In such case you may install HostMonitor on systemA, install RMA Manager on systemB and install Remote Monitoring Agents on 10 different systems (systemC1..systemC10).
 

  Copies:


You may make a reasonable number of copies of the SOFTWARE for the purposes of backup/maintenance of the SOFTWARE. These additional copies will carry the copyright notice and will be controlled by this license.
 

  Prohibited Activities:


You may not alter, remove, or cover any trademark, logo, proprietary or licensing notices, labels, or marks in or on any part of the Software. You agree to exercise reasonable efforts to ensure that all copies of the Software bear the same notices, labels, and marks contained in or on the original Software.
 

  Notice:


Advanced Host Monitor may not be sold or resold, distributed as a part of any commercial package, or distributed to support any kind of profit-generating activity, even if it is being distributed freely. If you would like to distribute Advanced Host Monitor as part of a commercial distribution, magazine, Internet book, CD-ROM, etc., please contact us for permission.
 

  Disclaimer:


Advanced Host Monitor is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall the author be liable for any damages whatsoever including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, loss of business profits or special damages, even if the author has been advised of the possibility of such damages.