Overview—Utilities
Your licensed application may have been delivered with several Sentinel RMS utilities which are used to install, configure, or report about the license management system.
The following table provides a list of utilities and their corresponding description.
Utilities | Privileges Required | Operating Systems | Description |
---|---|---|---|
User or higher |
Windows, UNIX, and Linux ARM |
Obtains fingerprinting information about a computer that will be used to generate a license. |
|
User or higher |
Windows only |
The Windows interface of echoid. |
|
User or higher |
Windows, UNIX, and Linux ARM |
Obtains information about a license that will be used to generate an upgrade license. |
|
Administrator |
Windows only
|
Installs/ uninstalls the License Manager into the system services registry and starts the service. |
|
Administrator |
Starts the License Manager. | ||
Administrator |
Windows and UNIX |
Command-line utility for check-in or check-out of a commuter authorization into the network. |
|
Administrator |
Windows only |
Used on computers to check an authorization for a commuter license out or back into the network. |
|
User or higher |
Windows and UNIX |
Used for obtaining a commuter locking code and installing a remote commuter authorization received. |
|
User or higher |
Windows only |
The Windows interface of rcommute. |
|
Administrator |
Windows and UNIX |
Installs a license. You need the license code from your application software vendor. |
|
Administrator |
Windows only |
Set the SMTP server, which will be used by the RMS License Manager to send alerts via e-mail. |
|
Administrator |
Windows, UNIX, and Linux ARM |
Monitors License Manager transactions. |
|
Administrator |
Windows and UNIX |
Temporarily configures the redundant License Manager pool. |
|
Administrator |
Windows, UNIX, and Linux ARM |
Displays information from a License Manager log file |
|
Administrator |
Windows, UNIX, and Linux ARM |
Displays the names and IP address of the computers on the network running License Managers. For Windows computers, you may want to use WlmAdmin. |
|
Administrator |
Windows and UNIX |
Used for creating the redundant license configuration files |
|
Administrator |
Windows only |
Used for creating the redundant license configuration files |
|
Administrator |
Windows only |
Allows adding and managing licenses on the customer site, plus few other administrator tasks related to the License Manager. |
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WlsGrMgr | User or higher | Windows only | Used to create or edit a reservation file. |
1 On Linux, a 64-bit variant of this utility is available. For macOS, only 64-bit variants are provided.
2 On Linux ARM operating systems, a 64-bit variant of this utility is available.