Introducing Your Sentinel Vendor Keys to Sentinel LDK
When you order Sentinel protection keys from Thales, you are assigned a unique Batch Code. Your Batch Code represents your unique confidential Vendor Code.
Your Sentinel LDK Starter Kit contains a Sentinel LDK Master key and a Sentinel LDK Developer key (referred to collectively as Sentinel Vendor keys). Each Sentinel Vendor key contains your unique Vendor Code.
You must "introduce" one of your Vendor keys to Sentinel LDK using the Sentinel LDK Master Wizard. Introducing a Vendor key means running the Master Wizard on a machine that has access to the Vendor key. This enables the Master Wizard to perform a number of important functions as described in Master Wizard Functions.
If you have multiple Batch Codes, you must introduce one of your Vendor keys for each Batch Code.
You must introduce one of your Sentinel Vendor keys to the system:
>Before you use Sentinel LDK Vendor Suite for the first time.
>After each time you upgrade to a new version of Sentinel LDK.
This ensures that your applications are protected and licensed with the unique codes that have been assigned to you and that you are working with the latest APIs and libraries.
NOTE The Sentinel LDK Master key is required
For more information about Batch Codes, see the description of personalized Vendor and Batch Codes in the Sentinel LDK Software Protection and Licensing Guide.
In this section:
>Methods of Introducing a Vendor Key
>Remote Connection of Vendor Keys