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Licensing

After successful installation of WinCan VX, the user has to activate the software license. WinCan VX can be used either with a local or a network license. In both cases, licensing is done with the supplied dongle (USB-hardlock) and its corresponding license file (V2C file) supplied by the local reseller. The V2C file itself must be copied to a separate folder on the local PC.

Local License

The following steps describe the licensing process on single-user computers in TV vehicles or offices:

  1. Insert the Black dongle to a free USB port on your computer. The dongle will be recognized by the system automatically, and will be confirmed by a message in the system tray:

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  1. WinCan VX always starts then in Viewer mode on the first run. Click Home > Program Information > Manage License and select License Update, to activate the license file (V2C file) to allow data entry and editing:

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  1. Browse to the location of the license file, select it, and click Open. A message will confirm the validity of the license, and then activates the corresponding functions of WinCan VX on the single computer:

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Network License

If you wish to use WinCan VX within a local network on multiple CLIENT computers, network licensing is the sensible solution. The SERVER and the CLIENT computers (PCs or notebooks) which have WinCan VX installed must be in the same subnet. The licensing procedure itself implies the following steps:

  • Install WinCan VX on at least one CLIENT computer in the network making the dongle driver HASPUserSetup.exe available under C:\ProgramFiles (x86)\CDLAB\Drivers\Hasp.

  • Copy the file HASPUserSetup.exe file from the CLIENT computer to the hard disk of the SERVER and run the driver installation there.

  • Plug the red network dongle into a free USB port on the SERVER. The system recognizes the dongle automatically which is confirmed by a notification message in the system tray:

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  • Call up the address http://localhost:1947 via your web browser and click on the link Update/Attach. Hit the button Choose File, browse for the corresponding license file (V2C-file) and load it:

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  • A message confirms the validity of the license and activates the WinCan VX modules you will be able to use at least on 5 client computers in the local network. A license extension of 10 to 50 CLIENT computers can be ordered at any time.

Checking the license

After the license has been activated, you may call up all the hardlock keys available within the current network via the Sentinel Keys link in your web browser described previously, or by selecting Home > Program Information > http://localhost:1947 from the WinCan VX main window:
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The above selections will also bring you to this location in your web browser:
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If a network key is not recognized, it is possible to get it activated via the link Configuration > Access to Remote License Manager. The network administrator will then have to type the server IP address in the text field Specify Search Parameters. Simply select Help to get specific support to this topic:
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Finally, check whether the Sentinel license service (PC > Control Panel > Administrative Tools) is activated within Windows, which must always be the case:
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License Updates

If you want to upgrade the software with additional features or modules you will need a new corresponding V2C license file from your supplier to match your dongle. Copy the V2C file back to your PC and update the license in the same way as described in the previous chapters.
Finally select the command Home > Program Information click Manage License on the main screen and check the column on the right to check that the new modules are listed and activated:
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Note on License Updates: If you have copied more than one version of a V2C file for the same dongle to your PC, you will have to load all of them individually in a chronological order by considering the final digit before the file extension:

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    943326514.V2C (31.08.2014)

  2. 943326514.V2C (30.11.2014)

  3. 943326514.V2C (15.01.2015)

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The license information itself is directly copied to the hardlock. So, after the installation of WinCan VX on different computers, the software can immediately be launched on any of them as soon as you have plugged in the dongle. The software modules activated with that specific license will therefore be available on that PC as well.