Flexible License Model

Specifies Deployment Mode as:

>Connected (Cloud LM): Generate connected licenses enforced in cloud and that can be consumed from anywhere.

>Lease: Generate lease-based licenses enforced in cloud.

>On-premises: Generate licenses on-premises where they are consumed.

If the Allow Overwrite check box is selected, then the value can be changed when creating a new entitlement or updating a draft entitlement. If the Allow Overwrite check box is not selected, then the value cannot be changed when creating or updating an entitlement.

>Specifies license is of type Network or Standalone for the Lease and On-premises deployment modes.

>Specifies license is of type Cloud for the Connected (Cloud LM) deployment mode.

NOTE   It is suggested that you specify the license type of a license model when you copy or edit the license model. This will improve performance during entitlement creation by reducing calls to the license generator.

If the Allow Overwrite check box is selected, then the value can be changed when creating a new entitlement or updating a draft entitlement. If the Allow Overwrite check box is not selected, then the value cannot be changed when creating or updating an entitlement.

>Network (for Lease and On-premises)

>Cloud (for Connected (Cloud LM))

Specifies the license version.

The date (day, month, and year) before which the licensed software cannot be run.

A No start date checkbox can be used to exclude the start date. This option can be selected for licenses so that embedded devices that do not have system clock can be supported.

The date (day, month, and year) beyond which the licensed software cannot be run.

A Never expires checkbox can be used to indefinitely extend the end date.

Limit that sets the maximum number of users that can run the licensed software.

Maximum Value: 4294967294 if license version is 20 and 10000000 for license version 19.

If the Allow Overwrite check box is selected, then the value can be changed when creating a new entitlement or updating a draft entitlement. If the Allow Overwrite check box is not selected, then the value cannot be changed when creating or updating an entitlement.

A sub-limit lesser than the user limit that is set to generate alerts.

If the Allow Overwrite check box is selected, then the value can be changed when creating a new entitlement or updating a draft entitlement. If the Allow Overwrite check box is not selected, then the value cannot be changed when creating or updating an entitlement.

Refers to a unit of time specified for the license to send updates to the License manager.

If the Allow Overwrite check box is selected, then the value can be changed when creating a new entitlement or updating a draft entitlement. If the Allow Overwrite check box is not selected, then the value cannot be changed when creating or updating an entitlement.

Named User License

(This attribute is available if Deployment Mode is Connected (Cloud LM))

Specifies whether the licensed application will be accessible to a pre-defined set of users.

NOTE   The Named User License flag is available for License Version 23.

Limit that sets the number of users allowed to use to the licensed application (feature).

For more information about Named User Licensing, refer to the Sentinel RMS API Reference Guide.

Cloud Served

(This attribute group is available if Deployment Mode is Lease)

Lease Duration (hours)

(previously known as Duration)

Duration of the lease in hours.

You can apply the default, full duration, or you can divide the lease into equal time periods, specified in hours.

For example, if a feature license is valid for 8760 hours (one year) based on its start date and end date, and you want to renew the lease quarterly, set this value to 2190 (three months).

If the Allow Overwrite check box is selected, then the value can be changed when creating a new entitlement or updating a draft entitlement. If the Allow Overwrite check box is not selected, then the value cannot be changed when creating or updating an entitlement.

Apply Full Duration

(changed in v5.5)

Apply Full Duration

(previously known as Unlimited )

The feature end date is applied to the license.

The default setting of full duration is useful in scenarios such as the ones described below.

Example Use Cases: Upfront Payment with Updates

>Suppose you sell your application with a license that is valid for a year with full payment in advance. You can select this checkbox to quickly apply the full duration of the lease license. To ensure that your customer receives entitlement updates seamlessly when needed, make sure to review the automatic detection settings. (Entitlement update delivery requires an internet connection.)

>Suppose your application does not require internet connectivity after the initial product license activation, but you want to force the application to connect to the backend frequently. In that case, you may want to clear this checkbox and set a Lease Duration value to issue a lease license in shorter increments.

Selected

Lease Renewal Frequency (hours)

The time period after which the next lease increment is issued.

By default, lease renewal is turned off in conjunction with Apply Full Duration. With full-term licenses, there is no need to renew leases.

If you want to specify a value, set it around 75% to 80% of the lease duration. Renewing the lease before it expires ensures uninterrupted license access.

Before setting any values, make sure to assess your use case in detail to see the overall impact of these values. A few example use cases are described here:

Example Use Case: Software Subscription Requiring Connectivity

Your application is available with subscription licenses on a monthly or quarterly basis and is billed accordingly. You also want to ensure that customers cannot continue using the product if the payment fails. In this case, set the lease duration to the subscription duration. Because the application must be connected to the Internet, you can dynamically control software access by disabling the line item or entitlement, as needed.

Example Use Case: Software Subscription Without an Internet Connection

Your application is available with subscription licenses on a monthly or quarterly basis and is billed accordingly. You also want to ensure that customers cannot continue using the product if the payment fails. In this case, you can set the lease duration to the subscription duration.

You need to decide what the acceptable overage is if the application does not connect with the internet after you disable the line item or entitlement. For example, in the case of a monthly subscription, if the customer does not pay after receiving the lease renewal and you decide to disable the license, the customer can continue to use the license for the remainder of the lease duration, which, in this case, is a maximum of 30 days. This can occur because the application does not access the internet to receive your update.

You also need to ensure that the lease renewal frequency matches the use case. For example, if you set this value to 24 hours without an actual need, an excessively high volume of activation records may be generated, which can lead to degraded performance.

If the Allow Overwrite check box is selected, then the value can be changed when creating a new entitlement or updating a draft entitlement. If the Allow Overwrite check box is not selected, then the value cannot be changed when creating or updating an entitlement.

Do Not Renew Automatically (Exception: Entitlement Updates)

(changed in v5.5)

Do Not Renew Automatically (Exception: Entitlement Updates)

Prevents automatic lease renewal. Entitlement updates will be delivered as per the automatic detection settings.

See Also: Examples: Lease Renewals and Entitlement Updates

Selected
(Maximum: 438000 hours)

Usage synchronization frequency in hours.

If the Allow Overwrite check box is selected, then the value can be changed when creating a new entitlement or updating a draft entitlement. If the Allow Overwrite check box is not selected, then the value cannot be changed when creating or updating an entitlement.

1 hour

Usage

(This attribute group is available if Deployment Mode is On-premises or Connected (Cloud LM))

Specifies whether usage will be collected for the on-premises served licenses.

NOTE   The Collect Usage flag is available for License Version 21 and above.

Specify whether or not grace period is allowed.

If the Allow Overwrite check box is selected, then the value can be changed when creating a new entitlement or updating a draft entitlement. If the Allow Overwrite check box is not selected, then the value cannot be changed when creating or updating an entitlement.

Specifies the number of days of grace. This attribute is available only if "Grace Period" is "Allowed".

If the Allow Overwrite check box is selected, then the value can be changed when creating a new entitlement or updating a draft entitlement. If the Allow Overwrite check box is not selected, then the value cannot be changed when creating or updating an entitlement.

Hours elapsed from the grace period specified.

If the Allow Overwrite check box is selected, then the value can be changed when creating a new entitlement or updating a draft entitlement. If the Allow Overwrite check box is not selected, then the value cannot be changed when creating or updating an entitlement.

Specifies the maximum number of days a commuter license can be checked-out for.

If the Allow Overwrite check box is selected, then the value can be changed when creating a new entitlement or updating a draft entitlement. If the Allow Overwrite check box is not selected, then the value cannot be changed when creating or updating an entitlement.

Specifies whether license can be held or not.

-No Hold Time

-Application Specified

-License Specified

A network license may be held for some time after it is released by a specific user. During that time only the original requester of the license can be granted the license again. Key Holdtime Minutes specifies the number of minutes for which a released license can be held before reallocation.

If the Allow Overwrite check box is selected, then the value can be changed when creating a new entitlement or updating a draft entitlement. If the Allow Overwrite check box is not selected, then the value cannot be changed when creating or updating an entitlement.

While creating a redundant licenses it is required that its redundant License Managers use majority rule. This field, when selected dictates that a majority (over half) of the redundant License Managers must be up and running for a request for that active license to be serviced. For example, if you have defined five redundant License Managers and majority rule is in effect, at least three of them must be up and running or a request for that license will fail. If majority rule is not in effect, your customer could set up the redundant License Managers and then separate them on different networks. Each redundant License Manager, not being able to see any of the others, would then allow your customer to double, triple, quadruple, etc., the total license count without purchasing that many license tokens. So, although you can turn majority rule off, you incur a huge security risk in doing so. If majority rule is in effect for a particular license and the majority of License Managers for redundant licenses go down then requests for licenses for that feature or version are no longer serviced until the majority of License Managers are up and running again. However, requests for non-redundant licenses or redundant license codes not using majority rule will continue to be serviced. We recommend that you always enable majority rule while generating licenses.

This attribute is visible only if the Redundancy attribute is selected.

Yes

Number of license servers available to support redundancy.

This attribute is visible only if the Redundancy attribute is selected under Policy.

Criteria

No

Additional information that you can include as part of your license code for identification. The private vendor information remains encrypted.

Vendor comments.

Maximum: 150 characters

NOTE   This field cannot be read or parsed by Sentinel RMS.

Additional information that you can include as part of your license code for identification. The public vendor information remains encrypted in encrypted licenses and readable in readable licenses.

Specifies the total number of secrets for the challenge-response mechanism (A technique used for authenticating the License manager).

If the Allow Overwrite check box is selected, then the value can be changed when creating a new entitlement or updating a draft entitlement. If the Allow Overwrite check box is not selected, then the value cannot be changed when creating or updating an entitlement.

Additional information about the vendor that you can include as part of the license code for identification. License vendor information remains encrypted in all types of licenses (readable or encrypted). If the license string is decoded, the encrypted information becomes readable.