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Chapter 3 – Planning Application Protection and Licensing Strategy
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64 Sentinel Hardware Keys Developer’s Guide
3. Click Properties. The dialog box shows the user limit for the license
template. Note that if 0 user limit is specified now (also the default
value), then it is not possible to customize the user limit afterward; the
user limit will always be equal to the hard limit. However, if you specify
a value other than zero, then you can optionally modify it later
through the following means:
At the time of programming Sentinel Keys. To do so, make sure you
keep the Override user limit later check box selected.
Remotely update the user limit by using the Update user limit
command (see the last row of the table “Feature and License Action
Type” on page 158 for details).
Note: The user limit can be updated remotely only if a non-zero user limit was
specified in the license template.
Do you plan to allow/disallow license sharing?
A license is said to be shared when multiple instances of a protected application
on a seat can be run using one license.
A seat represents a user name and MAC address combination.
For a stand-alone key user, a license is always shared.
For network key users, license sharing is not enabled by default.
Therefore each instance of the application (regardless of the seat) will
consume one user limit/hard limit.