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Sentinel/Gemalto

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Tools not Applicable to the VE License Server

Any Sentinel/Gemalto-specific license tools provided with the emulator installation are not applicable to the VE license server configuration.

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Actions that can Invalidate a VE License

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For cloud deployments: if supported by the cloud provider, the VE license server instance can be moved to a different subnet, as long as the original instance can be moved.

It is also possible to backup and restore (to the same instance) the license server data. Please note: it is not possible to use such a backup to revert to a previous license version.

However, the following actions will invalidate the license:

  1. All supported environments:
    • Copying the license server data to a different instance.
    • Seriously damaging the root filesystem of the license server system.
    • Re-installing the license server system.
    • Copying the virtual machine on which the license server runs. This includes cloning a virtual machine, or recovering a backup into a new virtual machine.
    • Changing the number of CPU cores of the license server system.
  2. VMware environments:
    • Restrictions from point 1 above. 
    • If the license server is bound to the ESXi host: using vMotion on the VM in which the VE license server runs
    • Changes to the API interface of the ESXi host or vCenter Server
    • The license can become temporarily unavailable if the user credentials or address information recorded by esxi_bind are changed. In this case, esxi_bind must be run again to define the correct user credentials and address information.
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Starting and Stopping the License Server

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The licensed service logs information to its log file in /opt/license-server/license_log/license.log and to journalctl.

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Charon emulators for VE licenses support a backup license server to ensure service continuity should the primary license server become temporarily unavailable.

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Backup licenses are typically limited to a certain number of emulator runtime hours

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The example below shows the output of a time-limited license for general VE license mode:

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# /opt/license-server/license_viewer 
<<License Viewer>> Current license:
License fingerprint: 07792211fc8ce3fdc085 <truncated>
Customer name: Stromasys
License ID: 01.00000001.002.020
Key type: COUNTDOWN
Expiration date: 100 hour(s)
Platform: amazon.aws
Release date: 2021-06-17 13:08:01
Grace period: 120 minutes
License check interval: 60 minutes

Virtual Hardware: Charon-SSP/4M,Charon-SSP/4U
Product code: Charon-SSP/ALL
Expiration date: 2021-12-22 23:55:00
Major Version: 5
Minor Version: 3
Maximum CPU: 64
Maximum virtual memory: 1048576MB
Instances allowed: 3

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Should the primary license server become unavailable, the emulator tries to connect to the backup license server. If this succeeds, the emulator continues to run without interruption. If no connection to a valid license can be established within 2 hours (general VE license mode) or 24 hours (AutoVE mode)after the loss of the license has been detected, the emulator will stop. The grace period is defined on the license.

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License server log file /opt/license-server/license_log/license.log

At every license server start, a new version of the log file is created and the previous file is rotated to license.log.1. Other existing versions are rotated accordingly.

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2021-08-10 17:16:41 ERROR VE       License protocol version is invalid.

Management GUI Web Server Log File

This log file contains errors encountered by the web server providing the management GUI of the VE license server.

Log file location: /opt/license-server/error.log

Sample content:

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<attempt to start the license server a second time>
[1636549131] [error] [client ] cannot bind to 80: 98 (Address already in use)
[1636549131] [error] [client ] cannot bind to 8084s: 98 (Address already in use)
[1636549131] [error] [client ] Failed to setup server ports

<restart of the license server>
[1636551531] [error] [client 192.168.2.80] SSL syscall error 104
[1636551532] [error] [client 192.168.2.80] SSL syscall error 104


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