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Overview - Utilities

Your licensed application may have been delivered with several Sentinel RMS utilities which are used to install, configure, or to report on the license management system.  

Given below is a list of these utilities and their brief description.

Utilities Privileges Required Operating Systems Description

echoid

User or higher

Windows and UNIX

Obtains fingerprinting information about a computer that will be used to generate a license.

wechoid

User or higher

Windows only

The Windows interface of echoid.

echouid

User or higher

Windows and UNIX

Obtains information about a license that will be used to generate an upgrade license.

loadls

Administrator

Windows only

Installs/ uninstalls the License Manager into the system services registry and starts the service.

lservnt

Administrator

Starts the License Manager.

lcommute

Administrator

Windows and UNIX

Command-line utility to check a commuter authorization out or back into the network.

Wcommute

Administrator

Windows only

Used on computers to check an authorization for a commuter license out or back into the network.

rcommute

User or higher

Windows and UNIX

Used for obtaining a commuter locking code and installing a remote commuter authorization received.

WRCommute

User or higher

Windows only

The Windows interface of rcommute.

lslic

Administrator

Windows and UNIX

Installs a license. You need the license code from your application vendor.

lsmail

Administrator

Windows only

Set the SMTP server, which will be used by the RMS License Manager to send alerts via e-mail.

lsmon

Administrator

Windows and UNIX

Monitors License Manager transactions.

lspool

Administrator

Temporarily configures the redundant License Manager pool.

lsrvdown

Administrator

Shuts down the License Manager.

lsusage

Administrator

Displays information from a License Manager log file

lswhere

Administrator

Displays the names and IP address of the computers on the network running License Managers. For Windows computers, you may want to use WlmAdmin.

rlftool

Administrator

Used for creating the redundant license configuration files

WRlfTool

Administrator

Windows only

Used for creating the redundant license configuration files

WlmAdmin

Administrator

Allows adding and managing licenses on the customer site, plus few other administrator tasks (like, shutting down the License Manager, locating the License Managers in the subnet, and creating reservation file and redundant license file).

WlsGrMgr User or higher The WlsGrMgr utility can be used to create or edit a reservation file.