Common Enforcement Properties

Outgoing Email Server Settings

Configure the outgoing email exchange server (SMTP) and other email properties.

Field Description
SOCKS Proxy Port The port for SOCKS proxy server.
SOCKS Proxy Host The SOCKS proxy host.
Use SOCKS Proxy

Specifies if SOCKS proxy is used. Socket Secure (SOCKS) is an Internet protocol that establishes a connection between the client and server and then routes all traffic back and forth using a proxy server.

Possible values: Yes or No

Use SMTP Authentication

Specifies if SMTP authentication is used.

Possible values: Yes or No

Use TLS

Specifies if transport layer security (TLS) is used.

TLS is a way of changing data such as your user name and password into code as it travels across the internet, so that the data will be secure and private. With email delivery, TLS begins with an unsecured connection to the email servers, and then upgrades to a secure connection once information is sent.

Possible values: Yes or No

Default value: No

Sender Name The sender name that appears in emails.
Sender Email

The email address from which all emails are sent.

Password Password corresponding to the user name.
User Name User name corresponding to the email. It is used for sending email from an authenticated email server.
SMTP Port

The port that connects to the email exchange server.

Default value: 25

SMTP Host

The email exchange server.

Entitlement Certificate Email Settings

Field Description
Send Email to Channel Partner

Specifies if the entitlement certificate is sent to defined channel partners.

Possible values: Yes or No

CC Email Change Allowed

Specifies if users can edit the CC Email field while creating, editing, modifying, splitting, and transferring entitlements.

Possible values: Yes or No

BCC The email address to which blind carbon copies of the entitlement certificate are sent.
CC The email address to which carbon copies of the entitlement certificate details are sent.
Sender Name The sender name that appears in the emails.
Sender Email The email address from which entitlement certificates are sent.
Email Required

Specifies if an email is sent when entitlements are produced.

>DESIRED—Sentinel EMS will try to send email, but if it fails, the operation will still succeed.

>REQUIRED—Sentinel EMS will try to send email, but if it fails, the operation fails.

>NO—Sentinel EMS will not send the email.

License Certificate Email Settings

Field Description
Compress License Certificate Attachments

Specifies if license certificate email attachments should be compressed.

Possible values:

>Yes—Attachments are compressed into a .zip file.

>No—Attachments are sent as plain files.

Default value: Yes

Add Downloads Links Specifies if downloads should be attached to emails.
BCC The email address to which blind carbon copies of the license certificate are sent.
CC The email address to which carbon copies of the license certificate details are sent.
Sender Name The sender name that appears in emails.
Sender Email The license certificate is sent from this email address.
Email Required

Specifies if an email is sent when licenses are generated.

>DESIRED—Sentinel EMS will try to send an email. The operation will be considered successful even if the email cannot be sent.

>REQUIRED—Sentinel EMS will try to send an email. The operation will fail if the email cannot be sent.

>NO—Sentinel EMS will not send an email.

Contact Certificate Email Settings

Field Description
BCC Send blind carbon copies of the contact certificate emails to this email address.
CC Send carbon copies of the contact certificate emails to this email address.
Sender Name The sender name that appears in the emails.
Sender Email The contact certificate is sent from this email address.
Email Required

An email is sent when end user is registered.

>DESIRED—Sentinel EMS will try to send an email. The operation will be considered successful even if the email cannot be sent.

>REQUIRED—Sentinel EMS will try to send an email. The operation will fail if the email cannot be sent.

>NO—Sentinel EMS will not send an email.

Technical Support Contacts

The following properties are appended to the end of the email body in all emails sent by Sentinel EMS.

Field Description
Phone Support contact phone number.
Email

Support email address.

Support Team Name Name of the support team.

Entitlement Configuration

Field Description
Consolidate License

Specifies if licenses for all line items are consolidated into a single .zip file on activation.

Possible values: Yes or No

Default Value: Yes

Allow Manual Creation of EID and PKID

Possible values:

>Yes—Enables users to specify a customized entitlement ID (EID) and product key ID while creating an entitlement.

>No—Sentinel EMS automatically generates the EID and PKID.

Default Value: No

Copy License Date from Line Item.

Specifies if users can copy a modified line item start date and/or end date as the start date and/or end date for all of its license models.

Possible values: Yes or No

Default Value: No

Default Enforcement

The enforcement name, for example, Sentinel Fit 1.5.

Line Item Quantity Specifies

The quantity of the line item to be consumed in one activation.

Possible values:

>Number of Activations

>Seat Count

>Both

SSL and HTTP(S) Port Details (Read-Only)

This section displays SSL status and port details.

Field Description
SSL

Specifies if the HTTPS protocol is used.

Possible values: Yes or No

HTTPS Port The HTTPS port in use.
HTTP Port The HTTP port in use.

General Configuration

Field Description
Multiple Entitlement Activation

Specifies if users can select multiple line items across entitlements for activation.

Possible values: Yes or No

Fix the Customer Portal Login Type

Specifies if the customer's default login type is fixed or can be configured.

Possible values: 

>Yes—The customer portal login type is fixed.

>No—The customer portal login type can be modified.

Default value: No

Customer Portal Default Login Type

Sets the default login type for the customer. Possible values:

>User ID

>Product Key

>EID

Default value: User ID

Component Multiplier Max Value

The maximum value that is accepted by the component multiplier.

Default value: 4294967294
Show Product Description while Activating

The product description is displayed together with the product name during activation.

Max Login Attempts Before Lockout

The number of unsuccessful login attempts a user can perform before Sentinel EMS locks the account.

Value range: 3 to 999

Default value: 10—The account is locked on the 11th incorrect login attempt.

Allow Channel Partner to Create Customers

This property allows a channel partner to add new customers and contacts for an entitlement during entitlement modification and split or transfer.

Default value: No

Email Validation Regular Expression

This property can be used to provide a regular expression for an email validation. This property helps a software vendor customize the email validation as per their requirement.

Default Value: [a-zA-Z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`

{|}~-](?:.[a-zA-Z0-9!#$%&'*/=?^_`{|}

~-])@(?:[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-][a-zA-Z0-9])?.)[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]*[a-zA-Z0-9])?

Component Multiplier Visible

Specifies if the Component Multiplier is visible and available to a user with administrative privileges who is creating or updating a product.

Possible values: Yes or No

Default value: No

Comments Required

Specifies if users must enter feedback comments when performing transactions, such as entitlement creation or activation.

NOTE   To maintain backward compatibility, in Sentinel EMS version 4.2 and later, this property controls the behavior of user-added comments for entitlements and activations. For versions up to 4.1, there is no change in behavior in the comments added by user.

Possible values:

>DESIRED—Sentinel EMS will try to send an email. The operation will be considered successful even if the email cannot be sent.

>REQUIRED—Sentinel EMS will try to send an email. The operation will fail if the email cannot be sent.

Customer Portal URL The URL of the customer portal that is published in generated entitlement certificates. This is useful when the customer portal exists on a separate machine but points to the same database as the vendor portal. The Customer Portal URL property is used in the above scenario to specify the URL that the entitlement certificates will reference.
Show Associated Downloads

Specifies if the functionality in the Associated Downloads pane for download management in the Sentinel EMS portal is enabled.

Possible values: Yes or No

Default value: Yes

Max Concurrent Requests per URL

The maximum number of concurrent requests allowed from an IP address to each URL in the Sentinel EMS portal. You can configure this property to a suitable number to keep your portal safe from denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

Default value: 100

Max Records per Page (Web Services)

The maximum number of records that are returned by REST API calls.

Default value: 200

Revocation Configuration

Not relevant for Sentinel Fit.

Batch Configuration

Not relevant for Sentinel Fit.

Default Interval between Start Dates and End Dates (in Days)

Field Description
User Login Number of days added to the user login start date to calculate the default user login expiration date. This date is used during user login creation if the user login expiration date is not provided.
Line Item Renewal Number of days added to the line item renewal start date to calculate the default line item renewal end date. This date is used during renewal if the line item renewal end date is not provided.
Line Item Number of days added to the line item start date to calculate the default line item end date. This date is used during creation if the line item end date is not provided.
Entitlement Number of days added to the entitlement start date to calculate the default entitlement end date. This date is used during entitlement creation if the entitlement end date is not provided.

Outbound Services

Field Description
Enable Revoked Event

Not relevant for Sentinel Fit.

Enable Entitlement Activate Event Enables the outbound services to be triggered during activation.
Enable Entitlement Split Event Enables the outbound services to be triggered during entitlement split and transfer.
Enable Entitlement Update Event Enables the outbound services to be triggered when entitlements are updated.
Enable Entitlement Create Event Enables the outbound services to be triggered at entitlement creation.

Authentication Systems

Field Description
Enabled Authentication System

Specifies the authentication system being used.

Valid values:

DB—Database is used for authentication

LDAP—Active Directory is used for authentication

UID—UID authentication

SSO—Single Sign On authentication

Action Buttons

The following action buttons are available at the bottom of the page.

Button Description
Test Email Send test emails to specified email address. This works only if the SMTP details are provided and are valid.
Save Save the data entered.