Distributing an Identity String

By installing an identity string on their machine, a user is granted access to a cloud license.

An administrator can distribute an identity string from the Add Client Identity page or the Edit client Identity page to a person or entity, using one of the following methods:

>Click Copy Identity String. The identity string is copied to the clipboard. Provide the identity string to the person or entity to install on their machine.

The recipient installs the identity string on their machine. For details, see Installing a Client Identity on an End User's Machine.

>Click Copy as URL. A URL for installing the identity string is placed on the clipboard. Provide this URL to the person or entity using encrypted email (such as PGP or GPG) if possible.

The recipient must have the Sentinel Run-time Environment installed on their machine. When they access the URL, Sentinel License Manager displays a message asking the recipient to confirm installation of the identity string to allow access to the protected application on the machine.

You can manually add a name parameter to the URL that will display the name of the application in the confirmation message. For example, if the protected application is called AutoFix, you can add &name=AutoFix to the URL as follows:

http://localhost:1947/__int__/install.html?identity=YN4JLGF:oBWAAQCBENJ56GWS4Da70g3juR8@server&name=AutoFix

When the recipient accesses the URL, Sentinel License Manager displays a confirmation message similar to:

You are about to allow access to a license for AutoFix from this machine. Click OK to confirm.

Sentinel License Manager parses and decodes the URL parameters to obtain the identity string and store it into local Admin License Manager configuration file.