Licensing a New Prinect Product
In this section, you will find an overview of the steps required to license a new product. You can find details about the various steps in the sections below.
Prerequisite: The following prerequisites must be met to be able to use the License Manager:
•The License Server that will be controlled by the License Manager is available in the system environment and running.
•For online protection:
•The installation code for online protection is available and online protection is enabled during installation. See Request the installation code.
•The Prinect Maintenance Center software is installed in the local system environment and is connected to the Internet.
•For offline (dongle-based) protection:
The Prinect dongle is available.
•The Prinect applications whose licensing you will edit with the License Manager are installed.
•Normally, after the purchase order or purchase, the license keys are transmitted by the Heidelberg License Service as a file to the local Prinect Maintenance Center and automatically read in by the License Server.
If this is not possible because, for example, there is no Internet connection to the local Prinect Maintenance Center, you receive a license key that you must enter manually in the License Manager. See License Assistant.
•You need the license ID of a product that supports solely fixed licenses if you wish to enable the Start mode of this product. If required, you will receive this from the Heidelberg License Service. In the case of online protection with the license keys provided via the Prinect Maintenance Center, enabling the Start mode is normally not necessary because licensing can be done very quickly.
Start the License Manager on the application PC on which the product that you wish to license is installed. You can now perform the following actions:
•You can enable the Start mode if you have not yet received a license key or if the licenses were not yet made available via the Prinect Maintenance Center. This lets you use the product for a limited period of time until you have received the license key.
•You can request a license key in the License Manager. See Ordering a License.
•If you already received a license key, you can enter it and, by doing so, enable the product on a permanent basis. See Entering a License.
Note: In the case of online protection with the license keys provided via the Prinect Maintenance Center, enabling the Start mode is normally not necessary.
Proceed as follows to activate the Start mode:
1.Display the License Assistant in the License Manager and select the "Activate Start mode" option.
2.After you click "Next", select the item that is part of the installed product in the "Product selection" dialog and click "Next".
3.Then enter the license ID for products that support solely fixed licenses. A license ID is not required for products that support floating licenses. Click "Next".
Note: The first time that you enter a license ID or a license key for a "new" Prinect application, in other words, for a product that is not yet registered or for options that were not licensed so far, it is essential that you launch the License Manager on the Prinect application PC, for example, during or after installation of the software for the Prinect product.
If you launch the License Manager on another computer, the system may look for this currently installed Prinect software version or for new options on the local computer. An error message is issued because this version is not found and licensing is not run. In this case, enter the license key again in the License Manager on the relevant Prinect application PC during or after installation of the Prinect software. This License Manager recognizes the current product version or the new options and can license them properly.
4.The "Select workstation" window displays. After you launched the License Manager on the Prinect application PC, select the "Select this workstation" option and click "Assign". This is always the case if the License Manager is launched during installation of the application software. If you launched the License Manager on another PC, select the computer name of the application PC in the "Select validated workstation“ list box and click "Next".
5.Click "Activate" in the "Activate Start mode" window. The Start mode is activated. The view changes to the License Overview.
Permanent Activation of Prinect Products or Options
Note: In the case of online protection with the license keys provided via the Prinect Maintenance Center, activation by entering a license key is not necessary.
Proceed as follows to activate the Prinect application version on a permanent basis
1.Open the Prinect License Manager on the computer on which the application to be enabled is installed.
2.Go to the License Assistant in the License Manager and select "Enter license". Then click "Next".
3.Enter the license key in the "New license key" text box and click "License".
4.The license stays assigned to the workstation if you activated the Start mode beforehand. You may have to assign the license to the "workstation" if the Start mode was not activated. Do this as described above in steps 4 and 5. See Activating Start Mode.
You can find more details about the various steps in the course of this description.
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