License Revocation

Using Sentinel RMS, you can allow your customers to revoke licenses. The need to revoke licenses can be driven by the following scenarios:

>Returning unused licenses - Your customers may want to return licenses they had bought earlier but no longer require (downgrade license terms). They might want to exchange surplus licenses for a new product or simply obtain a refund.

>Rehosting licenses from one machine or network to another - A customer may simply want to transfer licenses from one machine to a different one (also known as "rehosting"). Or, a system administrator may want to distribute the revoked licenses to another office or division.

Similarly, there can be other scenarios in which you can make use of the license revocation feature by combining it with profitable marketing schemes.

License Revocation Options Across Deployment Modes

The license revocation workflow described in this chapter applies to On-premises mode only and does not require Sentinel EMS. Using Sentinel EMS, you can perform revocation for all the deployment modes.

The following table provides a summary of how licenses can be revoked or returned for all the deployment modes:

Deployment Mode	Revocation Method
	Sentinel RMS-based		Sentinel EMS-based
	License Revocation Workflow	Sentinel RMS Revocation Tool	Request To Revoke	Revoke Immediately
On-premises mode		The tool is available under the redistributables directory of the Sentinel RMS SDK.
Lease mode*
Connected (Cloud LM)

* Instead of revoking licenses, software vendor can use any of the following ways for the lease mode. For details, refer to Releasing Lease.

>Cancel lease

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