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When exchanging or updating a network-based hardware lock, you will sometimes need to restart the license server in order for the changes to take effect.

 

•The easiest way to restart the license server is to reboot the entire server.

 

•If you for one reason or the other would like to avoid a reboot of the server, you can instead restart the license server separately.

 

How you restart a service without restarting the computer differs slightly depending on the operating system you are using on the server. You should try to find the Services feature, normally located under Administrative Tools, which in turn might be found in the Control Panel, but this differs.

 

In a conventional server installation, there are three services running that are associated with the hardware lock management:

 

•Sentinel Keys Server

•Sentinel Protection Server

•Sentinel Security Runtime

 

Typically, the Sentinel Protection Server needs to be restarted in situations similar to the one described above.

 

You restart a service by right-clicking it and then selecting Restart in the context menu that appears.