Master License Requirements

This section describes the modules that you require in your Sentinel LDK Master license in order to work with SL licensing and cloud licensing.

For additional details, see Sentinel LDK Software Protection and Licensing Guide.

Required Modules for SL Licensing

To work with SL licenses, you required the following modules in your Sentinel LDK Master license:

>New SL Key Pool

Required for generating new SL keys. Each time a new SL key is created for a given machine at a customer site, an SL key unit is consumed from this pool.

You can either purchase a quantity of SL keys for the pool, or you can subscribe to receive an unlimited number of SL keys.

>SL Pool of Seats

Required for providing network seats in an SL license. Each time a customer activates your software, the number of concurrent instances that you included in the Product is deducted from the SL Pool of Seats on your Sentinel LDK Master license.

You can either purchase a quantity of network seats for the pool, or you can subscribe to receive an unlimited number of network seats.

>Product Activation module (optional)

Sentinel LDK provides a mechanism to easily perform interactive license updates on an end user’s machine. This is accomplished by generating a Product Key for an entitlement in Sentinel LDK-EMS and providing this code to the end user. The end user accesses theSentinel LDK-EMS Customer Portal over the Internet and enters the Product Key. Sentinel LDK-EMS then retrieves the necessary information about the end user’s machine or existing license and completes the process to update the license on the user’s machine. (This process can also be accomplished in program code using Sentinel LDK-EMS Web Services.)

You purchase a subscription for the Product Activation module for a defined period of time.

The Product Activation module is not required if you only want to use the Product Key mechanism to update HL keys.

Required Modules for Cloud Licensing

To work with Cloud licenses, you require all of the modules described above for SL licensing. In addition, you required the following module:

>Cloud Licensing module

To generate and update SL licenses that grant license access based on identity strings, your Sentinel LDK Master license must contain the Cloud Licensing module.