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Overview

To obtain an activation key(s) to license your product(s) - web-activated licensing starts with a sales order. As a part of the sales order, the user will provide a licensing contact, who will receive the Activation Keys by email once the order is complete. Multiple emails may be received as different activation keys are generated for each product/version/level. These emails should be saved as they contain your activation keys which are required to license your product. The email also contains instructions to download and install the License Manager, Sentinel RMS Utilities and the product, along with activating the licenses. 

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In order to serve web-activated network licenses, you will need to install Sentinel RMS License Manager and Sentinel RMS 8.5 Utilities. Both these tools can be installed either using the CSI Installation Wizard or the their installation files can be downloaded from the following direct links:

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Please follow the instructions emailed with the activation key to install both the License Manager and Utilities in order to activate your licenses.

Users are encouraged to always use the latest set of Sentinel RMS Utilities.

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The License Manager (+ Sentinel RMS Utilities) can be installed on a physical machine as well as a virtual machine. For virtual machines, clustered environments do not support web-activated licensesmay require a different licensing model, therefore please notify our sales associates when placing an order that web-activated licensing cannot be used

License activation, deactivation

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and renewal

Web-activated network licenses use NetKey.exe to activate, deactivate, reactivate, and renew the licenses on the license server. This tool Instructions on how to use NetKey.exe and where it can be found are detailed in the Sentinel RMS 8.5 Utilities installation folder, and a shortcut is provided on the Windows Start menu. The activation key is required to activate or reactivate a license. Users should always deactivate their licenses before uninstalling the License Manager and/or Sentinel RMS Utilities. Step by step instructions can be found in the file below: 

NetKey Guide.pdf

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titleImportant

The license activation server ports are 80 and 443. If either of these ports is blocked, they need to be opened, otherwise license activation will not be possible. Please refer to the Error 'Port 80 (or 443) is not responding' when running activation tool for web-activated licenses article for additional information.

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Network License Activation, Deactivation and Renewal article. 

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Troubleshooting network license problems

Please refer to the Licensing License errors and their resolution article for troubleshooting instructions specific to each error code.

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