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Software licenses
The CHARON-VAX / CHARON-PDP Software License (SL) is a "virtual" key with exactly the same functionality as the hardware dongle. It does not require any hardware but the installation of the Sentinel run-time environment is required.
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The Software Licenses (SL) 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.
In special cases, a software license can also be bound to the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the host system. If this name changes, the license will be disabled. For a more detailed description of the restrictions, please refer to Software Licensing restrictions or contact your Stromasys representative. |
Software licenses are always network-wide on Windows, so they behave the same way as Network HASP keys.
Multiple licenses configuration and backup license
For any type of licensing, a CHARON VM can use only one valid ("active") license (of given vendor code) at a time.
The "HASP License details" utility (it can be started from CHARON Virtual Machines Manager) displays a range of available licenses but note that, by default, a CHARON VM may use any of them as the "active" one - unless it is directly specified by the "license_key_id" parameter (see below). The utility provides the license numbers and ID / IP addresses of the hosts where the licenses are installed.
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The general recommendation is to avoid the usage of multiple keys in one network segment. Use only one locally installed license per host or one network license per local network segment containing several CHARON hosts.
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When needed, it is possible to use a special parameter in the CHARON VM configuration files to specify exactly which license must be used by each particular CHARON VM:
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| license_key_id[N], N=0 or 1 | Numeric | A number (decimal Sentinel key ID) that specifies regular (N=0) and backup (N=1) license keys to be used by the CHARON VM. Example:
It is also possible to specify both regular and backup key in one line. Example:
Depending on the presence of the regular and/or backup license key IDs in the configuration file, the CHARON VM behaves differently:
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This parameter also specifies the license which will be used as backup if the active license expires.
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Installation and update of CHARON-VAX/PDP Software License or HL/HASP dongle License
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The CHARON-VAX / CHARON-PDP software licenses can be installed / updated according to the procedure described below. This procedure is also applicable for an update of a license located on HL/HASP dongle.:
Install CHARON-VAX / CHARON-PDP together with Sentinel run-time (Sentinel run-time is an essential part of CHARON-VAX / CHARON-PDP for Windows distribution)
Reboot the host system
- In case of Software License (SL) installation and if there are already installed network-wide SL's in on the local network, disable access to the network licenses in the following way:
- Open the CHARON Virtual Machines Manager, switch to the "Host Information & Utilities" tab and press the "Sentinel Admin Control Center" button:
or - alternatively - go to the http://localhost:1947 page using your browser to access the "Sentinel HASP Admin Control Center" (ACC).
- Select the "Configuration" option in the left pane then switch to the "Access to Remote License Managers" tab.
- Uncheck the highlighted options:
- Press the "Submit" button to apply the settings
- Switch to the "Network" tab.
- Set the "Network visibility" to "None":
- Press the "Submit" button to apply the settings.
- Do not forget to return these settings back after the software license installation.
- Open the CHARON Virtual Machines Manager, switch to the "Host Information & Utilities" tab and press the "Sentinel Admin Control Center" button:
- Connect the HASP dongle to the host system (in case of update of a license located on a dongle)
Collect the CHARON-VAX / CHARON-PDP host fingerprint file ("*.c2v")
Open the CHARON Virtual Machines Manager, switch to the "Host Information & Utilities" tab and press the "License Update tool" button to envoke the "License Update Service" utility:
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In the utility dialog popup switch to the "Collect Status Information" tab (opened by default) then select:
"Installation of new protection key" in case of Software License if no Software License has been already installed on the host.
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"Update of existing protection key" in case of HL/HASP dongle or Software License that has been already installed on the host and needs updating.
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Note In case of When using HASP dongles use , select only the "Update of existing protection key" option!.
In case of Software License use the "Installation of new protection key" option if the host does not have any Software License installed and the "Update of existing protection key" option if an already installed Software License has to be updated.
Press the "Collect Information" button. In the popup dialog choose the place to store the "Fingerprint.c2v" file and press the "Save" button:
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.Send the ".c2v" file ("Fingerprint.c2v" in the example above) to STROMASYS
STOMASYS will send you a ".v2c" file in return. Put it somewhere on the CHARON-VAX / CHARON-PDP host.
Open up the "License Update Service" utility the way described above and open the "Apply License File" tab:
Div class pagebreak Press the "..." button beside the "Update File" edit-box. In the popup select the license file received from STROMASYS:
Press the "Open" button and apply the license.Open the CHARON Virtual Machines Manager, switch to the "Host Information & Utilities" tab and press the "Sentinel Admin Control Center" button:
or - alternatively - start any web browser on this system and go to the http://localhost:1947 page to access the "Sentinel HASP Admin Control Center" (ACC).Ensure that the license appears in the “” menu.
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To access the Sentinel Admin Control Center, open CHARON the tCHARON Virtual Machines Manager, switch to the "Host Information & Utilities" tab and press the "Sentinel Admin Control Center" button:
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or - alternatively - start any web browser on this system and go to the http://localhost:1947 page.
Example:
This example demonstrates that 4 license keys are available:
Network A network key ("HASP-HL NetTime") on the host "XEON4WAYW7"
Network A network key installed locally
An HASP-HL installed locally
NetworkA network-wide software license on the host "RH64"
The Sentinel Admin Control Center reports that there is one opened session on key #4. The other keys are not being used at the moment.
For a more detailed description of the Sentinel Admin Control Center, please refer to its "Help" section.
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Disable remote keys access
A helpful feature of the Sentinel Admin Control Center is the ability to disable access to remote keys. If the network key is installed locally, access to the key from remote hosts can be disabled. The following examples demonstrate how this can be done.
To disable access to remote keys, switch to the "Access to Remote License Managers" tab, uncheck the "Allow Access to Remote Licenses" check box then press the "Submit" button to apply this change:
To disable access to the locally installed license key from remote hosts, switch to the "Access from Remote Clients" tab, uncheck the "Allow Access from Remote Clients" check box then press the "Submit" button to apply this setting:
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CHARON-VAX / CHARON-PDP for Windows provides two specific utilities for license management:
- "HASP View" . This - This utility is used to display CHARON-VAX / CHARON-PDP license the license(s) content.
- "License Update Service" . - This utility is used to collect key status information and host fingerprint (C2V) files and to apply updates (".v2c" files).
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Removing CHARON-VAX / CHARON-PDP software licenses
The following procedure must be applied to remove the software license (SL):
- Open the CHARON Virtual Machines Manager, switch to the "Host Information & Utilities" tab and press the "Sentinel Admin Control Center" button:
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or - alternatively - start any web browser on this system and go to the http://localhost:1947 page. - In the "Sentinel HASP Admin Control Center" (ACC), select the "Sentinel Keys" option in the left pane and locate the target "Sentinel SL AdminMode" license.
Press the "Certificates" button at the right side of the SL description:
.Note the name of the correspondent certificate and path to the certificates base in the "Certificates" section:
.- Remove the corresponding certificate file in the "
C:\Program Files\Common Files\SafeNet Sentinel\Sentinel LDK\installed\68704" folder. In the example above the file to remove is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\SafeNet Sentinel\Sentinel LDK\installed\68704\387285561437702475_base.v2c". - Reboot the CHARON host.
- Start the "Sentinel HASP Admin Control Center" (ACC) again to ensure the SL has been removed.
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Unplug the license dongle. Note that the Sentinel run-time driver is deinstalled uninstalled automatically when a complete deinstallation uninstallation of CHARON-VAX / CHARON-PDP is performed.
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Backup keys are provided by STROMASYS along with the standard license dongles. It is strongly recommended to order a backup key to recover immediately from damage or loss of the main license key. Backup The backup keys use a counter (integer) value hardcoded inside the key. This , this integer value is a number of hours CHARON-VAX / CHARON-PDP is allowed to run. Each time CHARON-VAX / CHARON-PDP checks the license (every hour), the value is decreased (by 1 hour). Please note that the backup keys have restricted functionality:
- The run time is typically limited to 720 hours (30 days). This is the time alloted to get a replacement dongle from STROMASYS.
- A Backup backup license may be valid only until a certain date.
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