Planning and preparation: Product licensing

License subscription plans

Cayosoft Guardian can be used with different license subscriptions. Each of these subscriptions enables different functionality.

Here is the list of license subscriptions available for working with Cayosoft Guardian:

Cloud deployment
On-premises deployment options
- Cayosoft Protector
- Cayosoft Guardian Base
- Cayosoft Guardian Trial
- Cayosoft Guardian and Forest Recovery

When Cayosoft Guardian is installed first time, the Protector licensing mode is activated. For more information, see Cayosoft Guardian Protector: Features and functionality. Later, you need to specify the activation code to activate Cayosoft Guardian Trial subscription. To activate a paid subscription and to start working with the product, see Configuration: Cayosoft Guardian Licensing
With the activation code, you can activate the Cayosoft Guardian Trial subscription which has the same features as the Cayosoft Guardian subscription.

The table below displays the Cayosoft Guardian features available in different license subscription plans.

Legend: ✓ = Supported | – = Not included in subscription | N/A = Not configurable in Cloud | Partially supported = See notes

Features / Subscriptions	Cayosoft Guardian Protector	Cayosoft Guardian Base / Cayosoft Guardian Trial	Cayosoft Guardian and Forest Recovery	Cloud deployment (SaaS, V1)
Threat Detection
Real-time Threat Detection	✓	✓	✓	Partially supported¹
Scheduled Threat Detection	✓	✓	✓	Partially supported¹
Updates from cloud	✓	✓	✓	✓ (managed by Cayosoft)²
Manual remediation of threat alerts	✓	✓	✓	✓
Reporting	✓	✓	✓	✓
Change Monitoring
Change Monitoring	✓ Only 14 days of change history are available (Protector).	✓	✓	✓
Change Alerts	✓	✓	✓	✓
Change Reports	✓	✓	✓	✓
Initiator Detection	✓	✓	✓	✓
Rollback / Automatic rollback	–	✓	✓	✓
Connect to Azure SQL or local SQL Server	✓	✓	✓	-⁽²⁾
Archiving to another database	✓	✓	✓	-⁽²⁾
Forest Recovery
Active Directory backup	–	–	✓	-
Single DC Recovery	–	–	✓	-
Instant Forest Recovery	–	–	✓	-
Azure Recovery Sites	–	–	✓	-
AWS Recovery Sites	–	–	✓	-
Back up AD domain controllers to Azure, Amazon S3, or network shares	–	–	✓	-
Configuration and Settings
Delegation	–	✓	✓	✓
Service settings	✓ Some Service settings cannot be modified (Protector).	✓	✓	Partially supported⁵
Jobs management	✓	✓	✓	Partially supported⁶

Cloud deployment notes (SaaS, V1)

Some threats are not compatible with RO gMSA, RO service principal, or connector constraints.
Product updates are managed by Cayosoft in Cloud deployments.
The database is managed by Cayosoft in Cloud deployments (customer DB configuration is not applicable).
Some service settings are disabled in Cloud for security and supportability purposes.
For some jobs, workflow/scheduler may not be available, and Cloud customers may be restricted from running jobs manually to prevent resource abuse.

Additional Cloud constraints

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