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-SSP 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 environments only. For Charon-SSP 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-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). This licensing option is adapted to the special requirements of a cloud environment and simplifies the process of running Charon-SSP in customer-specific cloud environments. The license server is managed by the customer.
VE licenses provided by a VE license server require a specific variant of the Charon-SSP software (available starting with Charon-SSP version 4.2.x). The examples in this guide were partially created with a pre-release of version 4.2. For a full description of Charon-SSP version 4.2 aspects that are not related to the specifics of the VE license application, please refer to your Charon-SSP user's guide.
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 Overview: brief overview of license server topologies.
Installing the VE License Server and the Charon-SSP Packages: installation of the license server software in cloud environments, and installation of the VE-enabled Charon-SSP 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 Charon-SSP to Use a VE License Server: steps for configuring Charon-SSP to use 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 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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