Overview

You manage your product licensing by using the Micro Focus Licensing Administration tool.

When you install your Micro Focus product, the Sentinel RMS license server is also installed to manage your license. Depending on how your site is administering licenses, you can also request licenses from a central license server.

Some licensing tasks require Internet connectivity from your computer. For example, when you authorize your product a connection is made with a Micro Focus server to verify the authorization code you have used and return a license code string. Similarly, the revoke license process uses a Micro Focus server to revoke the existing license and then provide a new authorization code. Where Internet connectivity is required, it is highlighted in the relevant task help.

Tip: You can prevent the license server being installed by creating an empty file called SKIP_SAFENET_INSTALL and saving it in the Sentinel installation folder ...\SafeNet Sentinel\Sentinel RMS License Manager\WINNT).

This stops licensing being interrupted while updates to the server are installing. When licensing needs to be updated, remove the file and install the server manually. You can also use this process on machines where you need to preserve the production environment.

To install License Manager manually:

From the command line, run the product installer NXP32xxxxxxxx.exe with the /extractcab option. This creates a subdirectory called SupportFiles that contains all the product .msi files including those for License Manager.
Run the installer appropriate for the bitism of your platform, either lmsetupx86.msi or lmsetupx64.msi.

Central License Server

If your site has multiple licenses and you want to use a central license server to manage them, install the Micro Focus License Manager that is supplied with your product. Individual workstations can then be configured to obtain a license from the license server machine.

License Management System Restrictions

The Sentinel RMS license management system supplied with your product does not acknowledge or manage Micro Focus product licenses you have previously installed and that use the Micro Focus License Management System.

CAUTION:

If you are using a timed license (for example, a 30 day trial license), do not change the machine’s date and time. If you do, the license will be invalidated and you will need to call Micro Focus SupportLine.

If you need to change the machine’s date and time, make sure that you have installed a full license that is not time limited.

Uninstalling a Product that uses Sentinel RMS

When you uninstall a Micro Focus product that uses Sentinel RMS, the license server is not uninstalled. You can choose to either revoke the license(s) that you have activated for that product or keep them.