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License Manager User Interface |
The Setup-application has created a program group called “PrintShop Mail License Manager”. The License Manager can be started by clicking on the License Manager in the program group.
Once you have chosen to start the License Manager, by clicking the License Manager icon in the “PrintShop Mail License Manager” program group, the License Manager will start up and the following screen will be visible.
The main screen shows some detailed information about the server name, the IP address and the License Manager version.
When you click in each of the icons in the menu bar, detailed information about the server, the connected users, and possible upgrades is displayed.
Once users start up PrintShop Mail Net on their client machine, this will become visible as follows:
Note: "Hostname" here refers to the computer name (client computer) from which a PrintShop Mail Net user is connecting to the License Manager.
Summary
The Summary screen shows some detailed information about the computer which is running the License Manager, the number of connected users and your hardware key.
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Hostname |
The hostname used to identify the computer on the Local Area Network (LAN) where PrintShop Mail License Manager is running. This is retrieved from the Microsoft Windows network settings and cannot be changed from the License Manager. |
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IP Address |
The IP-address of the computer running the License Manager. This shows what IP-address (network card / NIC) the License Manager "listens to". |
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Portnumber |
The portnumber the License Manager "listens to", PrintShop Mail users connect with the License Manager using this port. |
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Allowed |
Shows the maximum amount of unique users that can connect at the same time, depending on your hardware key. |
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Connected |
The number of connected users at the very moment. |
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Upgrades |
Shows what upgrade-options have been enabled in the hardware key |
In this image you see that we have a 3-user licensed dongle and that 2 users are connected. We are just using a regular license. For other license types see the chapter "Upgrading". The IP-address of the computer running the License Manager is "192.168.0.62", hostname "test-win2k' and the port the License Manager listens to is 7777. For information about changing these values, see chapter "Configuring the License Manager"
When a user connects to the License Manager, you see the IP-address and name of that user’s computer in the list of connected users, in the Connections tab:
Details of this connected user (selected in the screen above) are the IP-address: 192.168.0.156 and the hostname (computer name): “loira”.
Click
on the Information button to view
the connection time of this selected user:
The
Disconnect button allows the Administrator
to remotely disconnect a user. Simply
select the user and click disconnect.
The user can easily re-connect via the menu Help > Credit Information in the PrintShop Mail Net application on the client computer. There is no need to restart PrintShop Mail Net.