New SL Key Pool

Each time a new SL key is created for a given machine at a customer site, an SL key unit is consumed from the New SL Key Pool in the Sentinel LDK Master license.

A new SL key is created in these situations:

>An end user submits a Product Key for your software for the first time for a given machine. End users can submit a Product Key online, or they can request and receive an activation file to apply manually.

>You use Sentinel License Generation API to generate a license code for the first time for a given machine.

To create new SL keys, you may need to purchase a pool of SL key units. (This depends on your purchase plan or subscription plan for Sentinel LDK.)

When the New SL Key Pool is low, you purchase additional SL key units (if required by your plan). You can configure Sentinel LDK-EMS to send notifications when the pool reaches a predefined threshold, to ensure that you never run out of SL key licenses for your software. For additional information about configuring notifications, see the Sentinel LDK–EMS User Guide.

When you purchase SL key units, Thales adds an extra 10% to the number of units provided, to compensate for situations in which an SL key unit should not have been deducted from your Sentinel LDK Master license. (For example, if a customer’s hard disk drive fails and the customer must reinstall the software on a new disk drive or a different computer, you may choose to provide an additional activation even though the customer did not purchase a second license.)

If there are no SL key units remaining in your Sentinel LDK Master license (and your purchase plan or subscription plan requires that you purchase SL key units), you will not be able to perform an activation that installs a new SL key on a machine.