To be able to run Professional Edition of QuickField you must purchase a QuickField license.
QuickField licenses can be restrictive. They can restrict usage of QuickField specifying the subset of granted features and/or license expiration date. Currently, any feature is related to a class of specific physical problems (for example, Electrostatics, Heat Transfer Analysis, etc.). The license granting such feature grants you the right to solve the problems of this kind with QuickField.
Whenever you purchase a new license, you get a hardware key protecting your QuickField software from unsolicited copying, and the password linked to it. We encode the data describing the purchased license into this hardware key and into this password uniquely linked to it.
If your license does not grant you the full set of QuickField features, you can always extend your license purchasing additional license features. Similarly, you can prolong a temporary license. Since in these cases you do not purchase a new license, you retain the same hardware key. At the same time, we provide you with another password that reflects the new subset of granted QuickField features and/or the new expiration date of the license. After that you will only have to replace the old password with the new one.
When you run QuickField for the first time it asks you to enter the password. Make sure that your hardware key is available at that moment, otherwise QuickField does not accept the password.
To make your hardware key available, begin with attaching it to one of USB ports. After that, availability of your hardware key depends on the kind of QuickField license you have purchased. We provide two kinds of licenses: Single and Multiple.
Single license grants you the right to run QuickField on single computer at a time. The hardware key provided with such license will always be available for QuickField sessions on the computer the key is attached to. Regardless of the number of sessions started on this computer, neither of them will access another hardware key. On the other hand, this key will never be available for QuickField sessions started on other computers.
Multiple license grants you the right to start QuickField sessions on several computers in your local network simultaneously, limiting the number of sessions started at any given moment of time. This limit is encoded in the hardware key provided with the license. Attaching several of such hardware keys to computers of the same network, you increase the granted total number of sessions on that network.
Accessing a Multiple license hardware key from other computers on the network requires to install License Server on the computer the key is attached to.
Hardware protection key is a small electronic device that contains vital confidential information about the QuickField license you have purchased. The key should be attached to one of USB ports.
The key shipped with a Single license should be attached to the workstation where you will run QuickField. The key shipped with a Multiple license can be attached to any computer on the same network with the workstations where you will run QuickField.
License Server is a software application that keeps track of licenses granted to QuickField sessions. Any instance of License Server mediates between hardware protection keys attached to its computer and workstations running QuickField on the same network.
You install License Server only for Multiple licenses.
As a rule, you install License Server as Windows service. In this case, the installed server will be started automatically at boot time and kept running even when no user is logged in.
For License Server removal, installing, or adjustment use
<your Program Files folder>\Common Files\SafeNet Sentinel\Sentinel Protection Server\loadserv.exe.
To start License Server manually open Administrative Tools and choose Services. Choose Sentinel Protection Server and click Start in the Service Status section of this service.
To stop the protection server:
Run <your Program Files folder>\Common Files\SafeNet Sentinel\Sentinel Protection Server\spnsrvstop.exe; or
Open the Services dialog (see above) and stop the Sentinel Protection Server service.
You can use Sentinel License Monitor installed with QuickField to check the status of the protection server and those of individual protection keys. You can find its shortcut in the Tera Analysis submenu of Start Menu. You could also enter the address and the port of the computer running the protection server into the Internet browser in the following format:
http://<IP-address (or computer name)>:<port number>.
For example,
http://192.168.1.1:6002
For more details on these programs, refer to the original SafeNet documentation. You can find this documentation in the /Sentinel/SysAdminHelp folder on the QuickField Professional Edition installation CD. Alternatively you can find it at Thales group website or contact your QuickField distributor for help.
If you cannot resolve the problems related to the protection keys yourself, our QuickField Support Team is always ready to help you.