Sentinel LDK-EMS Major Workflows
License Planning
Before starting to use Sentinel LDK-EMS, it is recommended that business decision-makers in your organization, such as product or marketing managers, prepare a licensing plan based on the company’s licensing strategy.
The licensing plan identifies each individual functional component in your software applications that can be independently controlled by a license. In Sentinel LDK, these components are referred to as Features. A Feature may be an entire application, a module, or a specific functionality such as Print, Save or Draw.
In addition, the licensing plan
After completing the licensing plan, the Features and Products can be defined in Sentinel LDK-EMS. The output of this process is a repository of Products that are stored in the Sentinel LDK-EMS database—ready for customer orders.
NOTE You can make changes to your licensing plan and license models at any time, adding Features and Products as required.
For additional information on preparing a licensing plan for use with Sentinel LDK, see Preparing Your Sentinel LDK Licensing Plan.
For a description of the many types of licensing models you can implement using Sentinel LDK, see Licensing Business Models.
For additional information on defining Features and Products in Sentinel LDK-EMS, see Implementing Your Sentinel LDK Licensing Plan.
Order Processing and Production
Staff in your organization’s orders department receive and fulfill entitlements.
>An order for Products to be supplied with one or more Sentinel protection keys
>A Protection Key Update that specifies changes to be made to the license terms and/or data stored in Sentinel protection keys that have already been deployed
Order processing personnel process the entitlement details using Sentinel LDK-EMS. The license terms of each Feature in the ordered Products may be specified when the Product is defined, or when the entitlement is processed.
When all the details of an entitlement have been defined, the entitlement can be produced. The Product details, including the license terms and memory data, are stored in the specified Sentinel protection keys at the production stage or when the Product is activated, and can be updated after the keys have been deployed.
For additional information on processing and producing entitlements in Sentinel LDK-EMS, see Sentinel LDK Entitlements, Production, and Development Tasks.
Software Activation and Online Updates
Product activation and online updates are performed using Sentinel LDK-EMS when your software is installed at the customer's site.
Product Activation with Sentinel SL Keys
With Sentinel SL keys, the software is activated and usable only after the following steps are completed:
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2.Using the Customer Portal, the end user sends the Product Key to Sentinel LDK-EMS for validation.
3.A Sentinel SL key with license terms is sent back and installed on the end user’s computer.
Online Updates
Online updates can be implemented in the following ways:
>The Protection Key Update information is stored in Sentinel LDK-EMS for use in software that you provide to your end users. The update is then implemented as part of the end users’ installation process.
> The Protection Key Update information is stored in Sentinel LDK-EMS. After the protection key is installed on the end user’s machine, the user can access the Sentinel LDK-EMS Customer Portal. Sentinel LDK-EMS automatically applies any outstanding updates to the protection key. (See Customer Portal - Applying Updates to Protection Keys.)
>A file that contains the Protection Key Update information is generated and sent to the end user. This file can then be used with the Sentinel Remote Update System (RUS utility) utility or the Admin Control Center to ensure secure, remote updating of the deployed Sentinel protection keys.
For additional information on the RUS utility, see Sentinel Remote Update System (RUS).
A receipt can be generated when a Protection Key Update is processed, to verify that the update has been applied.