Miscellaneous Utilities
Sentinel RMS provides various utilities for you and your customers.
The following sections provide an overview of these utilities:
>D: Denotes the audience as you (the developer)
>S: Denotes the audience as system administrator (at the customer site responsible for controlling the License Manager).
>E: Denotes the audience as a licensed application end user
NOTE The utilities meant for the system administrators and application end users are installed in the \Delivery folder of the Windows installation. You should refer to this section Before you package your licensed application
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Utility/Category |
Description and Installation on Supported Platforms |
Audience |
More information |
| Sentinel RMS demonstration using the VLS licensing APIs | |||
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>Graphical sample program to show basic API functions. >Windows only: ...\Redistributable\Tools |
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For locking code generation |
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echoid1,2 |
>Command-line utility to determine a system’s locking code based on its fingerprint. >Windows - ...\Redistributable\Tools >UNIX - .../redistributable/tools >Linux ARM - .../redistributable/tools |
• E - When a locking code of the user system is needed. • S - When a locking code of the License Manager system is needed. |
Refer to the Sentinel RMS SDK System Administrator Help |
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wechoid |
>Graphical utility to determine a system’s locking code based on its fingerprint. >Windows only: ...\Redistributable\Tools |
Same as echoid |
Refer to the Sentinel RMS SDK System Administrator Help |
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echouid1,2 |
>Command-line utility to generate locking code for upgrade licenses. >Windows: ..\Redistributable\Tools >UNIX - .../redistributable/tools >Linux ARM - .../redistributable/tools |
Same as echoid
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Refer to the Sentinel RMS SDK System Administrator Help or Generating Upgrade Locking Code. |
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For license code generation (not shipped with the SDK) |
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lscgen |
>Command-line utility to generate license codes, including upgrade licenses. >Windows and Linux |
D |
Refer to the WlscGen Help and License Generation Using_lscGen |
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Wlscgen |
>Graphical utility to generate license codes, including upgrade licenses. >Windows only. |
D |
Refer to the WlscGen Help and License Generation Using_WlscGen |
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ulscgen |
>Command-line utility to generate upgrade licenses. >Windows and Linux |
D |
Refer to Generating Upgrade License Codes |
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For license distribution and installation |
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lslic1 |
>Command-line utility to add/delete license codes dynamically (without stopping and restarting the License Manager). >Windows - ...\Redistributable\Tools >UNIX - .../redistributable/tools |
S |
Refer to the Sentinel RMS SDK System Administrator Help |
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For commuter licenses |
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lcommute1 |
>Command-line utility to check-out and check-in license from a License Manager. >Windows - ...\Redistributable\Tools >UNIX - .../redistributable/tools |
S and E |
Refer to the Sentinel RMS SDK System Administrator Help |
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WCommute |
>Graphical utility to check-out and check-in license from a License Manager. >Windows only: ..\Redistributable\Tools |
S and E |
Refer to the Sentinel RMS SDK System Administrator Help |
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rcommute1 |
>Command-line utility to obtain a commuter locking code for the remote machine and install the remote commuter authorization. >Windows: ..\Redistributable\Tools >UNIX: ../redistributable/tools |
E |
Refer to the Sentinel RMS SDK System Administrator Help |
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WRCommute |
>Graphical utility to obtain a commuter locking code for the remote machine and install the remote commuter authorization. >Windows only: ..\Redistributable\Tools |
E |
Refer to the Sentinel RMS SDK System Administrator Help |
| NOTE WRcommute.exe will crash on Windows 7 Home basic Japanese OS build 7601, due to a known MFC issue. |
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For License Manager |
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loadls |
>Graphical utility to install/uninstall the License Manager into the system services registry. >Installed with the License Manager (under the \WinNT directory on Windows). >Windows only |
S |
Refer to the Sentinel RMS SDK System Administrator Help |
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lservnt |
>Command-line utility to install, start, stop, and obtain status of the Sentinel RMS License Manager service. >Installed with the License Manager (under the \WinNT directory on Windows). >Windows only |
S |
Refer to the Sentinel RMS SDK System Administrator Help |
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lsmail |
>Command-line utility to set the SMTP server, which will be used by the Sentinel RMS License Manager to send alerts via e-mail. >Installed with the License Manager (under the \WinNT directory on Windows). >Windows only |
S |
Refer to the Sentinel RMS SDK System Administrator Help |
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WlmAdmin |
>Graphical utility for adding and managing licenses on the customer site, plus few other administrator tasks related to the License Manager. >Windows only: ..\Redistributable\Tools |
S |
Refer to the Sentinel RMS SDK System Administrator Help |
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lsmon1,2 |
>Command-line utility to retrieve information about the licenses installed on a particular License Manager. >Windows: ..\Redistributable\Tools >UNIX: ../redistributable/tools >Linux ARM: .../redistributable/tools |
S |
Refer to the Sentinel RMS SDK System Administrator Help |
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lswhere1,2 |
>Command-line utility to locate the License Managers in a subnet. >Windows: ..\Redistributable\Tools >UNIX: ../redistributable/tools >Linux ARM: .../redistributable/tools |
S |
Refer to the Sentinel RMS SDK System Administrator Help |
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lsver |
>A Shell script to obtain the Sentinel RMS SDK version installed on the machine. >UNIX: ../vendortools |
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For License Manager redundancy |
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lspool1 |
>Command-line utility to view the list of redundant License Managers and perform few other administrator tasks, like adding/removing a License Manager in a redundant License Manager pool. >Windows: ..\Redistributable\Tools >UNIX: ../redistributable/tools >From RMS v9.5 onwards, lspool supports license hard limit up to 4,294,967,294. This is applicable for license version 20 (or above). Further, this high value is applicable only when hard limit is used as a quantity. |
S |
Refer to the Sentinel RMS SDK System Administrator Help |
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rlftool1 |
>Command-line utility to create redundant license files (for specifying redundant license configuration) >Windows: ..\Redistributable\Tools >UNIX: ../redistributable/tools |
S |
Refer to the Sentinel RMS SDK System Administrator Help |
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WRlfTool |
>Graphical utility to create redundant license configuration file. >Windows only: ..\Redistributable\Tools |
S |
Refer to the Sentinel RMS SDK System Administrator Help |
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For license reservation |
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Wlsgrmgr |
>Graphical utility to generate a group reservation file. >Windows only: ..\Redistributable\Tools |
S |
Refer to the Sentinel RMS SDK System Administrator Help |
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For displaying license code |
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lsdecode1,2 |
>Command-line utility to decrypt license codes. >Windows: ..\Redistributable\Tools >UNIX: ../redistributable/tools >Linux ARM: .../redistributable/tools |
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Refer to Decoding (Base) License Codes. |
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ulsdcod1,2 |
>Command-line utility to decrypt upgrade license codes. >Windows: ..\Redistributable\Tools >UNIX: ../redistributable/tools >Linux ARM: .../redistributable/tools |
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For displaying the usage log details |
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lsusage1,2 |
>Command-line utility to display the License Manager usage log details (on the customer site). >Windows: ..\Redistributable\Tools >UNIX: ../redistributable/tools |
S |
Refer to the Sentinel RMS SDK System Administrator Help |
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vusage2 |
>Command-line utility to display the License Manager usage log details (on the developer site). It can read and display more details than lsusage. >Windows: ..\VendorTools >UNIX: ../vendorTools >Linux ARM: ../vendorTools |
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Refer to "Displaying Encrypted/Readable License Manager Log File" |
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For revoking active licenses |
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Revocation tool |
>Used to revoke active licenses from the EMS portal. >Windows: ..\Redistributable\Tools >LINUX: ../redistributable/tools |
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1 For Linux, we have also provided a 64-bit variant of this utility. For macOS, only 64-bit variants are provided.
2 For Linux ARM, we have also provided a 64-bit variant of this utility.