Specifications

Software Activation for Stand-alone Applications
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Chapter 1 - Getting Started
Advantages of Network Licensing
A network license adds many capabilities to license management. The following
is a quick summary for the network administrator:
1. A network license server, by centralizing license use, allows you to keep
track of how much an application is being used. (The license server
usage log contains a record of each license transaction.)
2. You can restrict the subnet that a protected application can use to talk to a
license server if needed.
3. You can use SentinelLM utilities to display a summary of current and
historical software use.
4. You may impose local restrictions on software use. For example, a cer-
tain number of licenses may be reserved for particular departments or
work groups.
5. You may balance the load of license use on your network and provide
license server backup by creating a redundant license server pool.
6. You can configure the license server to report certain conditions such as
approaching license usage limits.
Your application vendor may automatically install and configure a license server
when you install a protected application. If this has been done, all you need to do
is to obtain and install any license codes. If the license server wasn’t automati-
cally installed, then you will need to install it before installing the license codes.
“Chapter 2 - Configuring the License Server” on page 15 tells how to install and
configure the license server. The rest of this chapter tells how to obtain and
install license codes.
Software Activation for Stand-alone Applications
A protected application won’t run without a valid license code. Software is often
licensed for a specific computer or network, but may be delivered and installed