Features Introduced in the 9.4.0 Windows Release

This section provides details about the new features introduced in the Windows 9.4.0 release.

Cancel Active Lease and Resume New Lease Cancel Lease and Resume Lease are introduced for the Lease mode: Cancel Lease Some of the main features are as follows: > Cancel Lease enables an end user to return the active lease-based license and free up the licenses. >After cancellation, the lease will not be renewed even when the licensed application or machine is restarted. >The cancel operation acts on the complete machine. After the latest lease is returned, old leases on the machine will stop working. >Post cancellation, all application installed on the machine will not be able to use the lease. >The lease thread is suspended and SCP will not connect to cloud for the lease. >Cancel lease action suspends the lease sync activity for the complete machine.

Sentinel RMS 9.4.0 Release Notes >Windows >Linux

NOTE   Cancel lease requires connectivity with cloud back end operations to be successfully executed. If the machine develops a hardware failure and cannot connect with the back end, then the software vendor's end customers may contact; and on trust basis the software vendor may use Complete Revoke (on Sentinel EMS GUI) or mark Revoke REST WS (on active activations) for the desired customer machine.

NOTE   For cancel lease, 'Allow Revocation' flag should be set as true while creating the entitlement in Sentinel EMS.

Enhancement in the sntl_licensing_transfer API

A new action (<cancelLease></cancelLease>) has been introduced to support this functionality.

This action does not require any input parameter.

Resume Lease

Some of the main features are as follows:

>Resume Lease is used to undo the effect of the cancel lease operation.

>After canceling a lease-based license, if a user wants to use the lease-based license, then they must resume the lease.

>The lease thread will be activated and SCP will connect to cloud to provide a lease-based license to the user.

NOTE   When the resume lease is called, it will bring licenses only if the quantity is available.

Enhancement in the sntl_licensing_transfer API

A new action (<resumeLease></resumeLease>) has been introduced to support this functionality.

This action does not require any input parameter.