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Please refer to  the Charon License Handbook (Handbooks) for details about these licenses.

Charon-SSP Automatic Licensing for Cloud

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Environments

When installing a Charon-SSP Marketplace Automatic Licensing (AL) image from a supported cloud marketplace, the cloud instance automatically receives a license at first launch. The license server must be reachable via a cloud-specific public IP address. The license server is operated by Stromasys.

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• USB dongles are by nature not suitable for cloud environments and their use in VMware environments is somewhat complex.
• Sentinel software licenses are easy to install in a cloud or VMware environment. However, their ties to hardware characteristics also make it easy to inadvertently invalidate them in such environments. Hence they are also not suited for use in cloud environments. Other Sentinel software license types do not provide the same level of license security.
• Marketplace Cloud-based automatic licensing does not allow a customer-specific environment in the cloud without Internet access. This is not suitable for many customers who require a private cloud network environment.

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