About this Guide
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Intended Audience
This guide is intended for anyone who needs to install, configure, or manage the Stromasys Charon Virtual Environment (VE) license server. A general working knowledge of Linux and its conventions is expected.
VE stands for "Virtual Environment". At the time of writing, this term refers to supported cloud and VMware environments. For Charon emulator products using such licenses, 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.
This guide covers the Charon VE License Server software. This package contains a license server application that can be installed in customer-specific AWS, OCI, GCP, Azure, IBM and VMware environments (additional platform support is planned for future versions). This licensing option is adapted to the special requirements of virtualized environments and simplifies the process of running Charon 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 VE-enabled Charon emulator software.
At the time of writing this support was available for Charon-SSP (starting with Charon-SSP version 4.2.x). For a full description of Charon-SSP 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 VE License Server Topology Overview: brief overview of license server topologies.
Installing the VE License Server and the Charon Emulator Packages: installation of the license server software, and installation of the VE-enabled Charon emulator software.
Installing a License on the VE License Server: steps for requesting and installing a Charon product license on the license server.
Configuring the Charon Emulator to Use a VE License Server: steps for configuring the Charon 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.
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.
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