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General Description
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Important information for software upgrades: Charon-HPA version 2.0 and higher is incompatible with licences of earlier versions. Earlier product versions are incompatible with licenses for Charon-HPA 2.0 and higher. Software licenses may have to be newly created from a fingerprint file during an upgrade from versions before Charon-HPA 1.10. |
A Charon emulator product will not run without a valid license. This license can be provided on a USB hardware dongle (a Sentinel HASP key) or as a software license bound to the hardware of the host system or the network license server. A loss or defect of a license will cause the emulator to stop.
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In some emulator products it is possible to configure the number of retries and the waiting time between them by adding parameters to the emulator configuration file. Please refer to the product documentation for the details regarding the relevant parameters: license_retry_period and license_retry_count parameters (obsolete starting with version 1.10)
2. At regular intervals during the runtime of the emulator (the default license check period of 1 hour can be changed by Stromasys using the appropriate license parameters):
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The license check for Charon-HPA will pass if the version on the license is higher than the one of the running Charon instance, as long as the major version (e.g., the 1 2 in 2.00) is the same. Please note that license are not compatible between product versions 1.x and 2.x.
License Type Overview
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Local hardware licenses are USB dongles and work on the system they are physically connected to. For Windows systems supporting AnywereUSB®, hardware licenses can also be connected over the network. They can easily be moved to a different system, if required. The content of the dongle can be updated if a change to the license or an extension of a time-based license is required. The necessary steps will be described later in this document. | Info |
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Hardware dongles require the Sentinel HASP run-time (driver) installation before the dongle can be connected to and used by the system. |
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Hardware dongles (with the exception of HL-MAX dongles) are equipped with a battery and a clock, which makes them independent of the host clock. To keep the battery charged, the dongle should occasionally be connected to a system even if it is not currently needed. If the battery becomes completely depleted, the dongle will be permanently unusable. See also: How long does the license USB dongle battery last upon a full charge. |
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A software license is a "virtual" key with functionality very similar to a HASP network-enabled hardware dongle. A software license does not require any special hardware but it still requires installation of the Sentinel runtime environment. | Note |
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To avoid unexpected problems, do not use any Sentinel runtime software that was not provided by Stromasys without being advised to do so by your Stromasys representative. |
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Software licenses are best suited for stable environments, because their correct function depends on certain characteristics of the host system. Changing any of these characteristics will invalidate the license. - If the Charon host runs on real hardware, software licenses are by default tightly bound to the hardware for which they were issued. If major hardware characteristics of the system are changed, the license will be disabled.
- If the Charon host runs in a virtual environment (e.g., VMware), software licenses are normally bound to the virtual machine ID and a set of additional characteristics of the virtual machine. If any of these parameters are changed, the license will be disabled.
For a more detailed description of the restrictions, please refer to Software Licensing restrictions or contact your Stromasys representative. |
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Software licenses are very sensitive to even small changes on the host system. Therefore, it is especially important to provide for a backup license that will ensure continued operation should there be a problem with the software license. See Handling Multiple License Keys and Product Licenses for details. |
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