Detach License

The Detach License page lists information about the Product for which you have selected to detach a license, and enables you to perform one of the following actions:

>Detach a license from a remote machine to install and use on the local machine.

>Detach a license to install and use on a remote machine.

>Detach one or more seats to be installed on a remote machine and used with concurrency. For more information, see Detaching Licenses With Concurrency.

>Update a detached license by extending the expiration date for the license.

>Update a detached license by increasing the total number of concurrent seats for the license.

NOTE

> The configuration option On-Demand Detaching of Licenses must be enabled on the host machine from which the license will be detached.

> This page is only relevant for on-demand detaching of licenses.

>If you are using Admin Control Center on a given machine to detach a license from a different license server machine, the user restrictions specified on the license server machine are applied. For more information, see User Restrictions for the Detach Operation.

To access the Detach License page:

From the navigation pane, go to the Products page. For the relevant Product, click Detach.

To detach a license for the Product:

On the Detach License page, click Detach & Attach (or Detach) to detach a license as described below, or Cancel to cancel the Detach action.

Product Information

The following information regarding the selected Product is displayed:

Option	Description
Product	The vendor-specified name of the Product, and its unique ID number.
Vendor	The name of the vendor of the Product, and the vendor's unique ID number.
Available Licenses	The number of licenses currently available for detaching from the Sentinel SL key.
Max. Duration	The maximum duration for which the licenses may be detached, after which they will be automatically disabled on the recipient machine and restored to the host Sentinel SL key (unless the detached licenses are extended).
Key ID	The unique key ID of the host Sentinel SL key and its vendor-specified name
License Host	The name of the machine to which the host Sentinel SL key is locked.

Detach Parameters

Specify detach parameters using the sections described below.

Detach Method

This section enables you to specify whether the license should be detached using an online connection between the host and recipient machines, or while offline. If you are currently online, by default the online option will be selected and the detached license will be automatically applied to the recipient machine when you click Detach & Attach.

Option	Description
Online	When selected, enables detached licenses to be automatically attached to the recipient machine. (Disabled if the recipient machine is not online.) If you are currently online, by default this option is selected. The detached license will be automatically applied to the recipient machine when you click Detach & Attach.
Offline	When selected, creates a Host-to-Recipient (H2R) file that can be applied to the remote recipient machine. If this option is selected, select the remote recipient machine from the Select Recipient Machine field. If there is already a detachable license on the recipient machine, details about when the license was created and when it expires are displayed. Note: If the name of the recipient machine is not included in the list: 1. On the recipient machine, download the machine identity file by clicking Create File ID in the Diagnostics page of the Sentinel License Manager on the recipient machine. 2.On the host machine (the machine on which the Product license resides), open the Update/Attach page and navigate to the recipient machine ID file. 3.Click Apply File. The recipient machine name is added to the list of available machines.

Option

Description

Online

When selected, enables detached licenses to be automatically attached to the recipient machine. (Disabled if the recipient machine is not online.)

If you are currently online, by default this option is selected. The detached license will be automatically applied to the recipient machine when you click Detach & Attach.

Offline

When selected, creates a Host-to-Recipient (H2R) file that can be applied to the remote recipient machine. If this option is selected, select the remote recipient machine from the Select Recipient Machine field. If there is already a detachable license on the recipient machine, details about when the license was created and when it expires are displayed.

Note: If the name of the recipient machine is not included in the list:

1. On the recipient machine, download the machine identity file by clicking Create File ID in the Diagnostics page of the Sentinel License Manager on the recipient machine.

2.On the host machine (the machine on which the Product license resides), open the Update/Attach page and navigate to the recipient machine ID file.

3.Click Apply File. The recipient machine name is added to the list of available machines.

Concurrency

This section enables you to detach one or more network seats with concurrency. For more information, see Detaching Licenses With Concurrency.

Option	Description
Allow Concurrency for Detached Licenses	When selected, the detached seats will have concurrency.
Total Number of Seats	The total number of seats with concurrency to be detached.

Expiration Date for Detached License

In the Expiration Date for Detached License section of the page, select the day, month and year on which the detached license will expire on the recipient machine. The selected date must be within the maximum number of days for which the license can be detached. This section is used for creating a detachable license the first time and for extending an existing detachable license.

Comment (Optional)

You can enter a comment regarding the detached license. This comment will appear for the license on the Detached Licenses page.

Successful License Detach

After a license has been successfully detached, information on the page changes to indicate that the Detach action has been successful. If you detached the license while online, the license has been automatically attached to the recipient machine.

If the license was detached while the host and recipient machines were not simultaneously online, the detached license file (H2R file) must be transferred from the host machine to the recipient machine. In this case, click one of the displayed buttons, depending on your preferences:

Click Save As to save the H2R file to disk.

Failed License Detach

If the license detach action fails, an error message is displayed, together with its explanation and error code. This information can be used by the system administrator to address the cause of the failure.