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5. Enter the product key sent to you by Rocscience and press Activate Product button.
7. If successful, a message stating that the product key has been successfully applied will be
displayed. If the product key is not successfully applied, press the Manual Activation link
in the bottom left corner and follow instructions in the Troubleshooting Activation section.
8. The licensing system used by Rocscience is the Sentinel LDK developed by Safenet.
To check that it was properly installed, run Admin Control Center shortcut by navigating to
http://localhost:1947 in your browser. This is your interface to the License Server. Select the
Products option on the left side. You should see the Rocscience product you had just
activated. In the following image, the Dips Network product is displayed.
2. Troubleshooting Activation
If you do not have an active internet connection or are otherwise having trouble activating the
software, you can activate it manually.
1. Open activation utility and click on Manual Activation link in the lower left corner in order
to switch to manual activation.
2. Click on the Save C2V button and save the authentication file somewhere easy to find on
your hard drive.
3. If you want users to be able to Detach licenses from the license pool, go to the
Detachable Licenses tab. Turn on the Enable Detaching of Licenses option. Set the
maximum duration for the detachable license. This is the time before the license is
automatically returned to the license pool. Set the Reserved Licenses value to at least 1,
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this ensures that there will always be at least one license available to the network pool. If
your company has purchased a single license, your license will not allow a user to detach
a license. Only multiple user licenses support detaching of licenses.
4. When a client accesses the license from a remote computer, a session is created. Select the
Sessions option in the left pane to view current sessions. In this way, you can see who is
currently using a license.
5. For any questions regarding the operation of the Sentinel Admin Control Center (ACC) consult
the Help in the left pane. This concludes the configuration of the License Server.
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6. Check on the Allow Access to Remote Licenses option if not already turned on. If the server is
on the same LAN, this should be enough to access the remote license on the server. If the
server is on a WAN, then add its IP address to the Specify Search Parameters edit box. Press
the Submit button.
7. Press the Products option in the left pane. If the license server has been found, you will see the
license in the products list (see below). It might take a few minutes for license server to show up.
If it does not show up, consult the Admin Control Center help for the parameters to use to
search for the remote license server. Consult your IT specialist.
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8. Since this is not a license server you may want to turn off access from remote clients to this
machine. Switch to Access from Remote Clients tab and uncheck Allow Access from Remote
Clients checkbox. Press Submit button below.
9. Once the client has found the remote license server, you can run your Rocscience product. If
you run the Rocscience product, and you get a license not found error, check to see that the
remote license has been found in the Admin Control Center.
10. If the computer will be using a Detachable license, this must be turned on in the Admin Control
Center. Run the Admin Control Center. Choose the Configuration option in the left pane.
Choose the Detachable License tab (see below). Turn on the Enable Detaching of License option.
Press Submit. There are many options in this Configuration dialog for setting the duration of the
detachment, consult the Admin Control Center Help for more information. For instructions on
how to detach a license, see the section Detaching Network Licenses in this guide. Note that
Detachable Licenses must be enabled on the server first in order to be able to detach a license
on the client machine. Only multiple user licenses support detaching of licenses, single user
licenses do NOT support detaching.
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5. Press the Products option. You will see the detached license in the list of products. You can
now detach your computer from the network with license server and still use the Rocscience
software.
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6. If you wish to return the license to the license pool, reattach the computer to the network so
you can see the remote license server in the list of products. Then press the Cancel License
button (see above). If you wish to extend the detachment period, use the Extend button.
Important: Nobody else can use the license while it is detached. The only way to return the
license is through the client returning license (requires access to the license server) or having the
detach duration expire.
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