Overview - Utilities
Your licensed application may have been delivered with several Sentinel RMS utilities which are used to install, configure, or report about the license management system.
The following table provides a list of utilities and their corresponding description.
Utilities | Privileges Required | Operating Systems | Description |
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User or higher |
Windows, UNIX, and Linux ARM |
Obtains fingerprinting information about a computer that will be used to generate a license. |
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User or higher |
Windows only |
The Windows interface of echoid. |
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User or higher |
Windows, UNIX, and Linux ARM |
Obtains information about a license that will be used to generate an upgrade license. |
|
Administrator |
Windows only
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Installs/ uninstalls the License Manager into the system services registry and starts the service. |
|
Administrator |
Starts the License Manager. | ||
Administrator |
Windows and UNIX |
Command-line utility for check-in or check-out of a commuter authorization into the network. |
|
Administrator |
Windows only |
Used on computers to check an authorization for a commuter license out or back into the network. |
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User or higher |
Windows and UNIX |
Used for obtaining a commuter locking code and installing a remote commuter authorization received. |
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User or higher |
Windows only |
The Windows interface of rcommute. |
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Administrator |
Windows and UNIX |
Installs a license. You need the license code from your application software vendor. |
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Administrator |
Windows only |
Set the SMTP server, which will be used by the RMS License Manager to send alerts via e-mail. |
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Administrator |
Windows, UNIX, and Linux ARM |
Monitors License Manager transactions. |
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Administrator |
Windows and UNIX |
Temporarily configures the redundant License Manager pool. |
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Administrator |
Windows, UNIX, and Linux ARM |
Displays information from a License Manager log file |
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Administrator |
Windows, UNIX, and Linux ARM |
Displays the names and IP address of the computers on the network running License Managers. For Windows computers, you may want to use WlmAdmin. |
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Administrator |
Windows and UNIX |
Used for creating the redundant license configuration files |
|
Administrator |
Windows only |
Used for creating the redundant license configuration files |
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Administrator |
Allows adding and managing licenses on the customer site, plus few other administrator tasks (like, shutting down the License Manager, locating the License Managers in the subnet, and creating reservation file and redundant license file). |
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WlsGrMgr | User or higher | Used to create or edit a reservation file. |
1 On Linux and Mac, a 64-bit variant of this utility is available.
2 On Linux ARM operating systems, a 64-bit variant of this utility is available.