End of Life Policy – Software
General Availability
SolarWinds will make the Software (as defined in the End User License Agreement) generally available to its customers. The date that the Software becomes generally available to the public is the General Availability date. Software as specified in this End of Life policy refers to the commercially available software product as a whole.
After the General Availability of the Software, SolarWinds will provide software support in accordance with the SolarWinds Software Support and Maintenance Terms and Conditions (Support Terms). As such, it will support the current Release (as defined in the Support Terms) of the Software and the previous Release of the Software. SolarWinds reserves the right to make bug fixes, patches, license resets, and service releases only for the current version of any Software Release. The customer may need to upgrade to the newest version before applying a bug fix, patch, service release, or requesting a license reset to obtain support from SolarWinds.
End of Life (EOL) Announcement
SolarWinds will communicate the discontinuation of the SolarWinds Software in an EOL Announcement to customers eligible to receive support and will also publicly post the EOL Announcement for customers, including those not eligible to receive support. The EOL Announcement should precede the End of Sale (EOS) Date by a minimum of 30 days.
End of Sale (EOS) Date
EOS Date signifies when the applicable Software will no longer be available for purchase.
EOS does not include the end of availability of a particular version of the Software. SolarWinds will provide customers with limited access to “legacy” versions of Software via the SolarWinds Customer Portal. Customers are encouraged to contact SolarWinds Customer Support in the event a “legacy” version is not available, but the customer feels it is necessary.
For most of the SolarWinds’ Software which incorporate a date-based license model, the EOS date is generally not applicable since new licenses work with previous product versions.
End of Engineering (EOE) Date
EOE Date signifies the date SolarWinds will cease engineering related to the Software and will cease providing engineering support related to the applicable Release. Prior to the EOE Date, SolarWinds will actively support the Release with service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, or patches for critical bugs reported through Software Support. When a Release reaches the EOE Date, it will, however, no longer be actively supported by engineering. Technical Support will be available until the End of Life (EOL) Date, which is typically one year after the EOS Date, provided the end user is entitled to receive support. Technical support can provide access to previously released hot fixes, service releases, etc. Technical Support will not include, nor will it create any new bug fixes or feature additions or requests for any Software that is past the EOE Date.
End of Life (EOL) Date
EOL Date means the date when all support shall cease for all available Releases of the applicable Software. Generally, the last Release will be one full year between the EOS Date to the EOL Date.
1 This End-of-Life Policy does not apply to free tools, evaluation, or third-party products. For third party products, SolarWinds will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide reasonable advance notice of such discontinuation of these products and replace the discontinued third-party product with another product containing substantially similar functionality, as the market demand may require.
2 While SolarWinds shall utilize commercially reasonable efforts to meet these EOL milestones for Software, there may be circumstances pertaining to the Software that make it unable to do so.
3 Technical Support means technical assistance provided to SolarWinds customers eligible for Support. This includes general guidance about SolarWinds Software and any workarounds, bug fixes, etc. that have been designed prior to the EOE Date.