New Features and Enhancements
Release: 6.4
The following features and enhancements are included in the Sentinel EMS 6.4 release:
>Product Bundles (Packaged and Discrete)
>Webhook Event-Activity Filtering
>Advanced User Management - Customer Admin Supporting Multiple Customer Accounts
>Share Customers Across Multiple Market Groups
>Customer Portal Extensibility
>Custom Clone Protection Schemes with Vendor defined-identifiers for Sentinel LDK
>License Revocation by End Users in Sentinel LDK
>Define Sentinel LDK Activation Attributes at Entitlement Creation
>Ability to Enter Sentinel Key Memory Hex Content and Display in Vendor Portal
>Configure Sentinel LDK ‘Apply License’ During Entitlement Creation
>Password Change Required at First Login
>Clear Password for Existing Customer Users
>Extended Data Export Reports for Additional License Models
>Lightweight Product‑Only Embedding in Search Entitlements API
>Standardized Page Size for Reliable API Performance
Product Bundles (Packaged and Discrete)
Sentinel EMS introduces product bundles, a new catalog item that enables you to group multiple products and offer them as a single SKU. Product bundles support flexible packaging by allowing you to combine software, hardware, and services within a single commercial offering.
You can define bundles that include products with different enforcement types and configurable quantities. Depending on the bundle configuration, you can activate the bundled products together or individually. Sentinel EMS supports the following bundle types:
>Packaged bundles: All products in the bundle are activated and consumed in the same quantity. This model is similar to product suites but provides improved flexibility and management.
>Discrete bundles: Each product in the bundle can have a different quantity and can be activated independently. This model enables flexible packaging scenarios, such as combining products and services within a single offering.
Product bundles allow you to simplify catalog management, reduce the need to create multiple SKUs, and create more flexible product offerings. Existing users of product suites are encouraged to migrate to product bundles to overcome current suite limitations and enable more flexible catalog design and monetization opportunities.
For more details, see Sentinel EMS User Guide for All Enforcements and Sentinel EMS User Guide for Sentinel LDK.
Webhook Event-Activity Filtering
Sentinel EMS now enables you to configure event-activity-level filtering for webhooks. You can configure webhook notifications to trigger only for specific activities within an event.
Previously, webhook notifications were generated for all activities associated with an event (for example, Entitlement Added). With this enhancement, you can select specific activities when creating or updating a webhook. For example, if you select only the activities Add Entitlement and Bulk Entitlement Upload, the webhook is triggered only when these activities occur. This improvement reduces unnecessary webhook notifications, minimizes noise for downstream systems, and enhances the efficiency of integrations relying on Sentinel EMS events.
For more details, see Sentinel EMS User Guide for All Enforcements and Sentinel EMS User Guide for Sentinel LDK.
Advanced User Management - Customer Admin Supporting Multiple Customer Accounts
Sentinel EMS now enables a Customer Admin to manage multiple customer accounts. A Customer Admin can be granted administrative access to additional customer accounts through an invitation process.
This capability allows a single administrator to manage multiple related customer entities from one login, simplifying administration for organizations that operate across multiple customer accounts.
For more details, see Sentinel EMS User Guide for All Enforcements and Sentinel EMS User Guide for Sentinel LDK.
Share Customers Across Multiple Market Groups
Sentinel EMS now allows customers to be shared across multiple Market Groups, enabling organizations with regional structures to maintain a single customer record while making it accessible to multiple business units. This significantly improves the usability and applicability of market groups for broader use cases.
For more details, see Sentinel EMS User Guide for All Enforcements and Sentinel EMS User Guide for Sentinel LDK.
Customer Portal Extensibility
The Customer Portal now provides enhanced extensibility capabilities that enable Thales Professional Services to implement custom extensions and tailored self‑service workflows.
A new card‑based UX control allows the creation of richer and more flexible portal user experiences, enabling organizations to design portal interfaces that better align with their specific business processes.
For more details, see Guide to the Sentinel EMS Customer Portal.
Custom Clone Protection Schemes with Vendor defined-identifiers for Sentinel LDK
Sentinel EMS now supports customer-provided locking information for Sentinel LDK activations. You can lock licenses to proprietary hardware fingerprints defined by the customer.
You can configure a custom clone protection scheme that uses custom-defined identifiers. This provides greater flexibility in hardware or environment-based license locking scenarios. This feature is available with Sentinel LDK 10.3.
For more details, see Sentinel EMS User Guide for All Enforcements and Sentinel EMS User Guide for Sentinel LDK.
License Revocation by End Users in Sentinel LDK
Sentinel EMS now supports license revocation by end users for Sentinel LDK licenses. When enabled by the vendor, end users can release licenses directly from their systems without vendor intervention. This enhancement improves self‑service capabilities and simplifies license lifecycle management. This feature is available with Sentinel LDK 10.3.
For more details, see Sentinel EMS User Guide for All Enforcements and Sentinel EMS User Guide for Sentinel LDK.
Define Sentinel LDK Activation Attributes at Entitlement Creation
You can now define Sentinel LDK activation attributes during entitlement creation. This enhancement provides greater control over activation behavior and reduces the need for configuration changes after the entitlement is created.
For more details, see Sentinel EMS User Guide for All Enforcements and Sentinel EMS User Guide for Sentinel LDK.
Ability to Enter Sentinel Key Memory Hex Content and Display in Vendor Portal
Sentinel EMS now allows you to enter Sentinel key memory content in hexadecimal format and view it directly in the Sentinel EMS vendor portal. This capability improves transparency and simplifies configuration of license memory content.
For more details, see Sentinel EMS User Guide for All Enforcements and Sentinel EMS User Guide for Sentinel LDK.
Configure Sentinel LDK ‘Apply License’ During Entitlement Creation
You can now configure the Sentinel LDK Apply License behavior when creating an entitlement. This enables order takers to control license application at entitlement creation time and reduces the need to duplicate catalog products.
For more details, see Sentinel EMS User Guide for All Enforcements and Sentinel EMS User Guide for Sentinel LDK.
Password Change Required at First Login
Sentinel EMS now allows administrators to enforce password change at first login for newly created vendor and channel partner users. This enhancement strengthens security by enforcing new vendor and customer users to change the default password immediately after their first successful login, before accessing Sentinel EMS.
For more details, see Sentinel EMS User Guide for All Enforcements and Sentinel EMS User Guide for Sentinel LDK.
Clear Password for Existing Customer Users
Administrators can now clear the password of an existing customer user. This enables the creation of a new partner user account using the same email address, simplifying user management in cases where customer accounts were created only for entitlement communication.
For more details, see Sentinel EMS User Guide for All Enforcements and Sentinel EMS User Guide for Sentinel LDK.
Extended Data Export Reports for Additional License Models
Data Export Reports including Expiration Date, Time from License Generation, and Execution Count now support additional Sentinel LDK license models. This enhancement improves reporting and analytics for licensing data.
For more details, see Sentinel EMS User Guide for All Enforcements and Sentinel EMS User Guide for Sentinel LDK.
Lightweight Product‑Only Embedding in Search Entitlements API
The Search Entitlements API now supports a lightweight product‑only embedding option. This option returns high‑level product information without detailed feature or license model data, improving API performance and reducing response payload size.
For more details, see Sentinel EMS REST API Reference.
Standardized Page Size for Reliable API Performance
Sentinel EMS now enforces a maximum page size of 200 records for REST API responses, with a default value of 200, ensuring consistent performance and reliable data retrieval.
For more details, see Sentinel EMS REST API Guide.