Licensing

The Admin > License screen allows you to update the license for the current Silhouette component. For example, the License screen in SilhouetteCentral shows details about the licensing of SilhouetteCentral and the License screen in SilhouetteConnect shows details about the licensing for that install of SilhouetteConnect. The following license details are displayed:

  1. Client Code: The client code the product is licensed against. If there is no client code in the text box, the Silhouette instance is unlicensed, and operating in a trial mode.
  2. Created: The creation date of your license.
  3. Expires: This is the expiry date of your license. If you have purchased a perpetual license, 'Never' is displayed.
  4. Features: Any optional software features that have been licensed are listed here.

Licensing SilhouetteCentral or SilhouetteConnect

Underneath the license details there is a Check for Update section that provides an Update button. To license Silhouette for the first time, enter your client code and select the Update button. To subsequently update your license, for example if you have purchased additional features or extended your warranty, it is only necessary to select the Update button.

In order for the automatic license update process to function, access to the Internet is required. If there is no Internet access, instructions on obtaining the license file manually are provided after the Update button is pressed.

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HTTP Proxy Configuration

The ARANZ Medical licensing server is hosted on the internet at https://www.silhouettecentral.com/licensing or https://europe.silhouettecentral.com/licensing. When attempting communication with the licensing server Silhouette uses .NET's default proxy settings. If your network environment requires Silhouette to use a different proxy server this can be specified by updating the defaultProxy setting within Silhouette's web.config file.

 

As an example if you desire Silhouette to make use of a proxy server located at 192.168.2.1 port 8888 you could update the relevant section of the web.config file as follows:

<system.net>
  <defaultProxy enabled="true">
     <proxy proxyaddress="http://192.168.2.1:8888"/>
  </defaultProxy>
</system.net>

Please refer to Microsoft's online .NET framework configuration documentation for further details.

Licensing SilhouetteTokenService

The SilhouetteTokenService only requires a license file if you are enabling optional features, i.e. SSO Integration. The SilhouetteTokenService doesn't support automatic license file retrieval as described for SilhouetteCentral.

To obtain a license file for the SilhouetteTokenService, supply the server details to ARANZ Medical Support. The server details are the same details required to obtain the SilhouetteCentral license.

To install the license file, rename it to SilhouetteTokenService.lic and place it in the directory (you may need to create the License directory first):

 

<SilhouetteTokenService Web Application Directory>\Files\License\