Sentinel Hardware Keys Developer's Guide - Customer Connection ...

Planning Application Protection and Licensing Strategy
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2.If Step 1 fails, it looks for the host in the ContactServer tag of
the client-side configuration file.
3.If Step 2 fails or the ContactServer tag is empty, the license
request will be broadcasted within the subnet.
Note: Broadcasting requires additional network resources and may result in a
longer time to acquire a license. If network resources and timing is an issue
for your customers, you may want to set the Sentinel Keys Server host in
the SFNTSetContactServer API function or they can set it in the client-side
configuration file.
To allow license sharing for seat users, call the SFNTGetLicense API
function with the SP_SHARE_ON flag. Else, each instance will
consume an individual user limit/hard limit.
Note: You can use the option, Use short ECC for Key Exchange, available at
the License Designer stage of Toolkit to improve the performance of SFNT-
GetLicense API in network mode.
Would you like to allow updating Sentinel Keys
remotely? If so, then which method would you choose?
The remote updates allow you to update products, features, and add licenses
to the hardware keys in the field, using simple methods like, file and e-mail.
You can choose from the following three methods of remote activation:
Integrate the Secure Update Wizard with your application (option
available for Windows only).
Ship the Secure Update Utility with your application.
Implement a custom remote activation option using the Secure
Update API.
Refer to Chapter 6, “Secure Remote Updates,” on page 137 for details.
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