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Introduction

This guide is intended for anyone who needs to install, configure, or manage the Stromasys Charon -SSP Virtual Environment (VE) license server. A general working knowledge of PC operating systems Linux and their its conventions is expected.

VE stands for "Virtual Environment" . The term refers to cloud environments and (planned for future versions) VMware ESXi environments. For Charon-SSP products using such licenses customers denoting Charon emulators and the environment in which they run. At the time of writing, the VE license server is supported in selected cloud and VMware environments, and on physical servers.

A VE license server provides licenses to one or more emulator instances. Customers must purchase their license from Stromasys. This is different from the cloud-specific Charon-SSP Automatic Licensing (AL) images where licensing is configured automatically when the cloud instance is launched, and use a VE-enabled emulator product. The license is based on the emulator model configuration required and typically valid for a certain period of time (it has an expiration date) , or for a defined number of runtime hours.

This guide covers the Charon -SSP VE License Server software. This package contains a license server application that can be installed in customer-specific AWS, OCI, GCP and Azure environments (the list of supported platforms may be extended in the future), Azure, IBM, Nutanix and VMware environments, and on physical servers. This licensing option is adapted to the special requirements of a cloud environment virtualized environments and simplifies the process of running Charon -SSP in customer-specific cloud emulator products in supported cloud and VMware environments. The license server is managed by the customer.

Please note:

• VE licenses provided by a VE license server require

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• VE-enabled Charon emulator software.
• At the time of writing this support was available for Charon-SSP

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• starting with Charon-SSP version 4.2.x).

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• For a full description of Charon-SSP

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• configuration and management aspects that are not related to the specifics of the VE license application, please refer to the Charon-SSP user's guide of you version (see CHARON-SSP for Linux).

For additional information about this product, please contact Stromasys at the regional addresses below or contact your Stromasys VAR. 

Structure of this Document

The document contains the following sections:

• Charon -SSP Cloud-based VE License Server Topology Overview: brief overview of license server topologies.
• Installing the VE License Server and the Charon -SSP PackagesEmulator: installation of the license server software in cloud environments, and installation of the VE-enabled Charon emulator software.
• Installing a License on the VE License Server: steps for requesting and installing a Charon -SSP product license on the license server.
• Configuring the a Charon Emulator for a VE License Server on a Charon-SSP Emulator: steps for configuring the Charon -SSP to use emulator to use the VE license server.
• Transferring a License to Another Server: move a license from one license server to another.
• Removing a License from a VE License Server: removing a license from a license server.
• Additional Configuration Options - the config.ini File: additional configuration options to customize communication ports.
• VE License Server Web-based Management GUI: description of the interface and the actions provided by the web-based GUI of the VE license server.
• Operational Information and Logging: information that may be helpful when operating a VE license server. For example, log file locations and samples.
• Updating a VE License: steps for updating a license, for example, when the expiration date approaches.
• Additional Information: supplemental information about installing a Linux cloud instance, about installing and starting the Charon-SSP Manager on a Linux or Windows management system, and about cloud-specific firewall considerations.

Please note:

• Cloud providers may change their management GUI without prior warning. Hence, the screenshots in this document may not always reflect the latest GUI appearance of the cloud provider. However, they will still provide an illustration of the described configuration steps.

• In general, the sample outputs in this document may show different versions than the one documented in this manual, but they are still representative of what a user will see.

Related Documents

• CHARONCharon-SSP V4.2.1 for LinuxUser's Guides and Release Notes