Web-Activated Network Licenses

for CSI products

Copyright Computers and Structures, Inc. 2012

This document describes how to manually activate and manage web-activated Networks licenses for any
CSI product released after August 1, 2012. For Standalone licenses please see separate documentation
or the ReadMe file for your product.
You will receive a Network license Activation Key by email for your CSI product. Please follow these
instructions to activate your licenses so that you can begin using your product:
1. License Server
a. Login to the system where you will be running the License Manager that will serve the
network licenses.
b. If you are using Windows XP on the server, make sure that it has been updated to service
pack SP3.
c. Make sure you have administrative rights.

2. CSI ftp server
a. For steps 3, 4, and 5, you may need to download some files from the CSI ftp server here.
b. If this link doesnt work, you can copy this address and paste it into your browser:
ftp://ftp.csiberkeley.com/pubdocs/Sentinel RMS License Manager 8.5.0/.

3. License Utilities
a. If you have not done so already, install the Sentinel RMS 8.5 Utilities.
b. You can download the installation as file Sentinel RMS 8.5 Utilities.zip from the CSI ftp
server (Step 2).
c. After installation, the default location of these utilities is:
32-bit systems, C:\Program Files\Computers and Structures\Sentinel RMS 8.5
Utilities
64-bit systems, C:\Program Files (x86)\Computers and Structures\Sentinel RMS 8.5
Utilities
d. You will need these utilities to activate, deactivate, reactivate, and renew web-activated
network licenses.
e. In the future, be sure to deactivate all web-activated licenses before uninstalling the
Sentinel RMS 8.5 Utilities.


4. License Manager
a. If you have not done so already, install the Sentinel RMS License Manager v8.5.0 or later.
b. If you are running an older version of the License Manager, then before installing v8.5.0:
If running License Manger v8.0.0 and later:
o Make sure all commuter licenses are checked in and that no licenses are in
use. You can check this by running WlmAdmin.exe under the Sentinel RMS
8.5 Utilities from Step 3.
o Stop the license server. Use the Windows command Start > Administrative
Tools > Services, find Sentinel RMS License Manager, and click Stop.
o Uninstall the existing License Manager.
If running License Manager older than v8.0.0, leave it running and install v8.5.0 on a
different server, starting with Step 1 above.
c. Download the installation for License Manager v8.5.0 as file Sentinel RMS License Manager
8.5.0.zip from the CSI ftp server (Step 2).
d. After installation, make sure the License Manager is running as a service.

5. Activate the License
a. Run the NetKey application from the Sentinel RMS 8.5 Utilities installation folder. This can
also be accessed from the Windows Start menu under Computers and Structures > Sentinel
RMS 8.5 Utilites.
b. Select the Task Activate a Network License and click OK.
c. Copy the full Activation Key from the email you received and paste it into the Key box in
the NetKey form (see figure).

d. Click the Activate button.
e. Choose how many of the available licenses you want to activate on this License Server.
Normally you would activate all of them. However, you can instead choose to activate
subsets of the available licenses on different License Servers. In this latter case, you will
need to perform Steps 1 to 5 on each license server.


6. Your license(s) are now activated.
a. Separately install your CSI products as Standalone or Network installations.
b. Create a text file called LMHOST.INI containing the network name of the license server as a
single line of text.
c. For Network installations, copy the LMHOST.INI file to the folder where the product was
installed on the server (not the workstation).
d. For Standalone installations, copy the LMHOST.INI file to the folder where the product was
installed on the standalone machine.

7. Do not delete any files from the Sentinel RMS 8.5 Utilities installation folder on the license server.
These will be needed later to deactivate or renew the licenses.

8. In the future, if you wish to renew your license or to deactivate it so that it can be moved to another
system, run the NetKey application again and follow the instructions.
Please contact CSI Licensing or your local dealer if you have any questions about the above procedure.
CSI Licensing is available at license@csiberkeley.com or by phone at +1 510 649 2203.

Updated 2012-10-31.