Glimpse of Customer Site License Operations

To a great extent, application licensing is invisible to your customer. Although a network or system administrator can maintain and change Sentinel RMS License Manager configuration, the end users of the application may never realize license management is in place unless a licensing condition is overridden.

Here is a general idea of how license management is implemented at your customer’s site for a specific computer:

1.Your licensed application is installed on your customer’s computer, which may be a standalone computer or a networked computer. If your application is to run on a network, the customers need to install and configure the License Manager as well.

2.If you have chosen a license model that does not require knowledge of the customer’s computer (example, time-limited demonstration license), you can ship a license code with the application. In this case, the customer can go to Step #4, below.

If the license model that you have chosen requires locking the application to a specific computer or locking the License Manager to a particular computer, the customer needs to compute the fingerprint of the computer to be locked using any of the methods discussed in the topic Generating Locking Codes. The customer sends the fingerprint to you.

3.You or your distributor will then generate a license code using any of the methods discussed in the topic License Generation Options and pass that license code to the customer.

4.The customer installs the license code. If your application has been developed to accept a license code at installation time, all the customer has to do is enter the license code. If the application has not been developed in this way, the customer will use a license installation program such as lslic to install the license code or license code file. You must document the actual procedure and provide this documentation to the system administrator or end user.