Activation Actions
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Actions for Activation
You manage activated licenses using the Activations page, which you can access from the navigation pane. The following table lists the actions available for activations:
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View transaction details of a selected activation. For more information, see Transactions. |
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Renew a license. For an activated entitlement , you can renew the end date of associated line item. See Renewing a Line Item for more information. |
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For a selected activation, opens the entitlement in the Entitlements page. |
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View and email the license certificate of the activation. Refer to Viewing the License Certificate for details. |
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When more than one line item is activated, view the license details for all the line items using this action. |
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Manage activatees (the contacts (individual or customer) that generate a license code for products). Refer to Managing Activatees for details. |
Viewing the License Certificate
The license certificate contains the details of the entitlement.
To view and email a license certificate for an activation:
1.Select an activation.
2.Click the View License Certificate action button. The license certificate appears:
3.Click one of the following buttons to perform the given action:
•Send Email: Sends details of the license certificate to the specified email. Sentinel EMS also enables you to select a language, based on the language packs installed to send this email.
•Save License: Enables you to save the license certificate as a file.
•Append License to File: Enables you to append the license certificate details to an existing file.
•Close: Closes the window.
Managing Activatees
The Manage Activatees action available on the Activations page provides the option to manage activatees for each activation. The Manage Activatees action opens the Manage Activatees page displayed below:
The Managing Activatees page can be used to perform the following actions:
>Add and associate activatees
>Mark an activatee as default
>Delete an associated activatee
>Disable an associated activatee
>Enable an activatee that was previously marked as "disabled".
Adding and Associating Activatees
The Add Activatees button on the Manage Activatees page is used for adding and associating an activatee. The page to add and associate an activatee is given below:
The following table explains the activatee attributes:
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Specify the activatee. Email of the contact, who performs the activation. |
Required | A valid contact email. | |
| Password | Password the activatee (contact) uses to log on to Sentinel EMS portal. | ||
| Name | Name of the activatee (contact. | ||
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| Ref ID 1 | Reference identifier that identifies the activatee in an external system. | Optional |
>Unique across Sentinel EMS for all activatees >Alphanumeric >0 to 100 characters |
| Ref ID 2 | Reference identifier that identifies the activatee in an external system. | Optional |
>Alphanumeric >0 to 100 characters |
| Phone | Telephone number of the activatee. | Optional |
0 to 100 characters |
| Language |
Display language for the activatee. Select a language from the available languages to specify a language other than English. Automatically generated emails (for example, entitlement certificate, license certificate) are sent to the activatee in this language. Also, when the activatee logs on to the Sentinel EMS, the pages displayed are in the selected language. |
Required | The options displayed depend on the language packs installed for Sentinel EMS. |
| Company Website | URL of the company website | Optional | A valid URL |
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Billing and Shipping Address Attributes Billing Address |
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| Street/PO Box | Street address or the post office box details of the activatee for billing statements (for example credit card statements). | Optional | 0 to 100 characters |
| City | City of the activatee. | Optional | 0 to 30 characters |
| State/Province | State of the activatee. | Optional | 0 to 30 characters |
| Country | Country of the activatee. | Optional | 0 to 30 characters |
| ZIP Code / Postal Code | ZIP or postal code of the activatee. | Optional | 0 to 20 characters |
| Use as Shipping Address |
>Select Yes to use the same address for both billing and order shipment. > Select No to expand the pane and specify a different Shipping Address for receiving orders. |
Yes OR No |
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Actions for Managing Activatees
The following table lists the actions available for managing activatees:
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Deletes activatee. You can delete an activatee to remove its association with the activation. |
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Disables an activatee. | ||
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Re-enables the activatee that is marked as disabled. |
