Resources on Stromasys Documentation Server

There are several additional documents and articles on the Stromasys website dealing with specific aspects of licensing in more detail than can be covered in this documentation. The main resource for product questions is the Stromasys product documentation page: see Documentation. The following table shows additional articles providing information about certain Charon aspects or solutions to common problems:

Document Link	Comments
Tool Descriptions
Charon on Windows - Automated License Expiration Check	Description and use of a PowerShell script to read the license content and send alerts before the license expires.
Charon Log monitoring on Windows (logmond) - Best practices	Best practice recommendation for alerting the system administrator after the license has been removed from a system.
CHARON on Windows - Charon License Utility	This utility allows the installation/uninstallation of the 'Sentinel LDK License Manager' service and drivers. It enables the use of USB license dongles and Software Licenses (SL) management.
Charon on Linux - Automated license expiration check	Checks the license content on a system and sends configurable alerts in the time period before a license expires.
Troubleshooting
How to read a HASP key over RDP on Windows	Execute hasp_view as a scheduled service and write output to file.
License Update Service utility reports "update was already installed"	Steps to solve the problem when V2C files were applied in the wrong sequence or the C2V file sent to Stromasys was not current.
HASP Common Error codes translation	License error codes common in Charon environments and their description.
How long does the license USB dongle battery last upon a full charge
Sentinel Admin Control Center - Attach/Update errors	Describes errors that can occur while applying a V2C file using the Sentinel Admin Control Center.
HASP_NO_VLIB error 48 message when installing a software license	Installing HASP SL package on certain older versions of Charon-AXP without built-in support for software licenses.
License not found, not valid, expired or prohibits use of cpu_N	The license does not allow the configured number of CPUs for an emulator instance.
hasp_update utility returns error message	Description of error which can occur when a v2c file is re-applied.
Charon Launcher - License not found, not valid or expired	Description of error when user attempts to start emulator over RDP.
Charon for Linux - Detected removal of the license whereas dongle is connected	How to fix „disappearing dongle“ problem without actually unplugging and plugging in again.
Charon on Linux - Cannot get license information or run guests over ssh	One possible workaround for displaying license content (hasp_srm_view) or running the Charon emulator when connected via ssh.
Charon-AXP and Charon-VAX license not found error	Detailed description of problem and workaround.
Configuration
How-to configure a VMware virtual machine to make the dongle follow migration to another ESX server	Relevant, for example, if vMotion is used.
Charon licensing options	Recommendations for Charon licensing in complex environments.
Software Licensing restrictions	Parameters to which a software license is tied to on a host system.
How-to enable remote connection to Sentinel Admin Control Center without GUI	Sentinel ACC remote access must be enabled before use. This document describes how to do this if the host system does not have a graphical user interface. It also provides a description of additional interesting parameters.
Enabling logging in Sentinel Admin Control Center	Recommended settings to enable logging for the Sentinel Runtime driver.