Commuter Licensing

Understanding Commuter Licensing

One of the most significant advantage of the Sentinel RMS Development Kit license management system is that it provides commuter licensing, which allows you to temporarily use a protected application on a portable computer that is not connected to the network.

The most common use of commuter licensing is when a user of your network needs to travel on business and wants to take along the protected application. If the license code for that application has been defined by your vendor to allow commuter licensing, the network user can check out an authorization to use the application for the duration of the trip, and then check the authorization back in on returning.

To check out an authorization, the portable computer (for example, a laptop) on which the application will be used must be attached to the network and have access to a license server containing the license for that application. The application must also be installed on that laptop. After checking out an authorization, the user may disconnect the laptop from the network. A license can also be checked out for a computer that does not have direct access to the server. In such a case any system that can access the server can check out the license for a remote system by using remote checkout.

To understand the working of commuter licensing, we suggest that you read the following in the order of their sequence.

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