Artica is an Open Source project, the source code is available to everyone that want to improve it or auditing the code.
Artica allows you to choose 3 modes of licensing, Community ,Enterprise or Gold License, Regional Governmental License .
Except for the Gold License, Artica communicates on the 443 port with the license server “licensing.artica.center”, be sure that your Artica server and your browser are able to communicate with this server.
Periodically, your Artica server ping the license server in order to sends it’s availability to your Account on the licensing server.
The license is a subscription based per year/server and users.
Users are calculated in different ways.
License items are calculated by the average each Week:
In order to allow for elasticity and ensure an irregular flow of users, the calculation of users is done by averaging the elements consumed from a daily average each week.
If for example for a 100 users license, you have an average of 50 users on Monday, 150 users on Tuesday, 200 users on Wednesday, 50 users on Thursday, 50 users on Friday and finally 0 users on the weekend, you will not exceed the license number.
If the license average did not exceed 20% of the number of items, then Artica have no impact on the production system.
Basically a warning message is just displayed on the Web interface console.
If the number of license is exceeded the bandwidth of the server will be reduced to 1mb/s and require the administrator to unlock the limitation each hour during 1 day.
There is 2 ways to avoid the limitation, first and simple is to return back to community edition, second to purchase a Gold License.
Some features are only avaliable on Enterprise license.
The following table shows you the differences bettwen Community and Enterprise license.
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Proxy features: |
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HTTP/HTTPS/FTP Proxy Cache feature |
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HTTP/HTTPS/FTP Proxy advanced ACLS ( WAF ) |
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HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/SSH TCP proxy compressor |
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HTTPS Secure Proxy |
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HTTP proxy Compressor |
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HTTP/HTTPS/FTP Proxy LDAP authentication |
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RDP/TSE reverse Proxy |
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HTTP/HTTPS/FTP Kerberos Authentication method |
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HTTP/HTTPS/FTP Active directory (NTLM) authentication method |
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Ability to Skin error pages |
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Cluster (Load-balancing Proxies + Active Directory) |
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Transparent cluster (Load-balancing Proxies in transparent mode ) |
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IT Charter service |
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HTTP Proxy statistics |
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Standard anti-malware databases |
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Extended anti-malware databases |
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Extended anti-malware community databases |
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Web-Filtering features: |
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150 Web-filtering Categories (50 million Web sites) |
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Ability to Skin error pages |
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Can create groups of categories |
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Can create a remote personal Categories service |
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Logs retention features: |
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Unlimited logs retention for statistics |
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Unlimited source Logs retention |
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Act as syslog / log server |
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Send Google Safe Browsing to remote syslog server |
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Send proxy events to remote syslog server |
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Send Firewall events to remote syslog server |
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Artica Statistics |
Limited to 5 days | Unlimited |
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REST APIs: |
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REST API For system |
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REST API For Proxy service |
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REST API For Web-filtering |
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Network features: |
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Firewall |
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Intrusion detection system |
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Automatic Ban network attacks |
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SSH service |
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DNS Features |
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Advanced DNS service ( PowerDNS) |
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System features: |
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Backup/export Artica configuration |
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Restore/Import Artica configuration |
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Skin the Artica Web console |
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Databases management: |
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MySQL (Installation / Management ) |
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OpenLDAP (Installation / Management ) |
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PostGreSQL |
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ElasticsSearch database Management |
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Kibana database Managemement |
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Monitoring features: |
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SNMP service |
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Zabbix Agent |
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Web services: |
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Possibility to create Web services |
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VPN services: |
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OpenVPN |
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TailScale VPN |
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IPSEC |