Network Installation Procedures

Overview

In a multi-user environment, license tracking with multiple keys is difficult. To combat this, ProModel Corporation offers a network version of ProModel that allows a single machine to control license usage (via a network connection) for several users. To use this method of license tracking, you must install a network version of ProModel. The network version of ProModel includes a hardware security key and the license manager software you will use to control license usage at your site.

When you install and run the network version of ProModel, the workstation searches your network for a license key server, rather than checking its own USB port for a security key. Once it locates the license key server, the workstation asks the license manager software (running on the key server) if a license is available. If a license is available, the license manager software will assign a license to the workstation. When you exit ProModel, the license you used becomes available to another user.

The license server consists of the security key that plugs into the license server’s USB port, and the license manager software. When installed, the license server responds to ProModel license requests and allows workstations to run either a full version (if sufficient licenses are available) or a limited run-time version.

ProModel Corporation’s software monitors licensed user activity through a security key attached to the parallel port (for the network version of ProModel, you must have the red key supplied by ProModel Corporation). The machine to which you attach the key becomes the license manager—whether it is a dedicated file server or a workstation. The security server can run on Windows XP, Vista or 7 and Windows Server 2008 and listens for incoming license requests over any of the following network protocols: IPX, TCP/IP, and NetBEUI. If the security server is not functioning, ProModel will start as a limited run-time version.

Check the support web page for periodic updates to the installation information, software configuration, and the license server software for ProModel.