About this Guide

The guide contains detailed information about Sentinel RMS—its benefits, various features and components.

This is the place to begin if you are not familiar with Sentinel RMS. After installing the SDK (installation directions are in the Release Notes), you can perform a simple practice by automatically licensing an application.

 

After you have experimented with automatic protection and studied some of the basic licensing concepts in the initial chapters, you probably will want to learn more advanced licensing techniques. The Planning Application Licensing chapter contains discussions of the main design decisions you will face each time you license a product. It is a good practice to review the many design tradeoffs discussed in this section before beginning a new licensing project. Further chapters describe individual topics that you read depending upon the licensing plan you have made. The chapter about the redistributables provides a checklist of components and utilities that you need to package and ship with your application.

Audience

This guide is meant for developers / programmers who would plan the licensing policy for their software using Sentinel RMS.

Documentation Conventions

This document uses standard conventions for describing the user interface and for alerting you to important information.

Notes

Notes are used to alert you to important or helpful information. They use the following format:

NOTE   Take note. Contains important or helpful information.

Cautions

Cautions are used to alert you to important information that may help prevent unexpected results or data loss. They use the following format:

CAUTION!   Exercise caution. Contains important information that may help prevent unexpected results or data loss.

Warnings

Warnings are used to alert you to the potential for catastrophic data loss or personal injury. They use the following format:

**WARNING**   Be extremely careful and obey all safety and security measures. In this situation you might do something that could result in catastrophic data loss or personal injury.

Command Syntax and Typeface Conventions

Convention	Description
Bold lettering	Denotes keystrokes, menu items, window names or fields.
Courier	Denotes syntax, prompts, and code examples.
Italic lettering	Denotes file names and directory names. Else, used for emphasis.

Documentation Resources

Access the latest Sentinel RMS documentation here.

GDPR Compliance

The Sentinel RMS SDK and its redistributables are GDPR-compliant. To achieve this compliance in the case of Sentinel RMS License Manager's usage log files, make sure that the -log-anonymity option is used to anonymize the actual details of the user. Refer to the Sentinel RMS System Administrator Guide for more information about doing this.