Trial Evaluation

A 90-day trial evaluation is available for Virtual CipherTrust Managers. This is beneficial for trying out features when a new instance is launched in Community Edition.

The trial evaluation on Virtual CipherTrust Manager instances includes the following licenses:

• Virtual CipherTrust Manager

  Note

  The Virtual CipherTrust Manager license allows full access to licensed administration features.

• Cloud Key Manager

• KMIP Clients

• Data Discovery and Classification

• CipherTrust Transparent Encryption

• CipherTrust Live Data Transformation

• CipherTrust Transparent Encryption for Kubernetes

• Application Data Protection

• Data Protection Gateway

• CipherTrust RESTful Data Protection

• ProtectFile

Trial License Period

All trial licenses expire 90 days after you first start the trial evaluation. The original 90 day expiry applies if you start, stop, and re-start the trial. The original expiration date also applies if you upgrade the CipherTrust Manager to a new firmware version.

You can apply full licenses any time before, during, or after the trial period. When a valid, purchased license is activated, the trial evaluation expiring or stopping has no effect on the purchased license, and all the associated features are still available. If you do not apply a purchased Virtual CipherTrust Manager license, and the trial evaluation expires or is stopped, the instance goes into Community Edition.

After you apply a purchased Virtual CipherTrust Manager license, you cannot enable or disable the trial evaluation through the web console, only through CLI or API.

If you reset a CipherTrust Manager during a 90-day trial evaluation, all Connector licenses are removed but the Virtual CipherTrust Manager license remains. You can re-start the trial for the connector licenses, but the original expiry date from before reset applies.

Start the Trial Evaluation

In the web console:

1. Login as admin, or another user in the admin, System Admins, or License Admins group.

2. Navigate to Admin Settings > Licensing.

3. Click the + Start CipherTrust Platform Evaluation button in the top corner.

   The features list now shows all trial licenses as Active and shows an Expiration Date 90 days into the future.

In ksctl CLI:

As admin, or another user in the admin, System Admins, or License Admins group, run the following command:

ksctl licensing trials activate --id "CipherTrust Manager Full Trial"

Stop the Trial Evaluation

In the web console:

1. Login as admin, or another user in the admin, System Admins, or License Admins group.

2. Navigate to Admin Settings > Licensing.

3. Click the + Stop CipherTrust Platform Evaluation button in the top corner.

4. Confirm that you wish to stop the evaluation, and lose access to licensed features.

   The trial licenses are now removed from the features list.

In ksctl CLI:

As admin, or another user in the admin, System Admins, or License Admins group, run the following command:

ksctl licensing trials deactivate --id "CipherTrust Manager Full Trial"