[EN] Working with licenses. Detailed Guide

This guide was created as an extension for [EN] Working with VIT licenses. Quick Guide and [RU] Работа c лицензиями. Краткое руководство. It provides with the digest of Sentinel HASP / Sentinel LDK documentation applicable to VIT licensing concepts.

The goal is to explain the basic concepts of Sentinel products. This will give you the understanding of your actions while following instructions from guides mentioned above.

Font conventions 

Lettering

Description

Bold

Denotes keystrokes, UI elements (like menu items, window names, fields), filenames, directory names, terminal commands.

Italic or Orange

Used for emphasis.

Used abbreviations

  • LPR — license plate recognition.

  • LP — license plate.

  • OS — operating system.

  • UI — user interface.

  • VMS — video management software.

  • fps — frames per second.

Sections overview

Proceed to one of the sections, depending on what information you are interested in:

Licensing structure of VIT products (lists the main protected features of VIT products)

Types of license keys provided by VIT (explains the difference between license keys of different types, provided by VIT to users)

Important license keys properties (reveals the meaning of the terms: batch code, key ID, feature, license type)

Quick introduction to Admin Control Center (contains the essentials of ACC web-application used for viewing the current license status)

License installation, activation and update (provides with the advanced instructions on how to install, activate and update your software and hardware keys, either with help of c2v/v2c files or Product Key)

Troubleshooting