The SoftwareShield CheckPoint License Server allows you to control the activation of your software from a central secure server location.  This section describes how to realize the various features of the CheckPoint License Server.  If you instead want to see what the features are, see: CheckPoint Central Server Controlled Licensing.

The CheckPoint License Server is a Windows ISAPI web-application and database system that interfaces with your license project files to provide end-user license activation functionality and customer tracking capabilities.  

This section covers:

• Deploy the CheckPoint Server - how to physically deploy the binary ISAPI and configure IIS.

• Configure the CheckPoint Server - how to do basic configuration to initialize it.

• CheckPoint Database - how to set-up, initialize and manage the CheckPoint database.  Deployable in Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft Access.

• CheckPoint Interfaces - how to program against the available interfaces described in detail.

• CheckPoint License Server Security - how to configure CheckPoint server security.

• Upload License Meta Data - how to upload simple information about your license projects.

• Deploy your License Projects on the CheckPoint Server  - how to deploy and test your LPJ files to the CheckPoint Server for use in Serial Number Code Exchanges.

• Pre-Generating Serial Numbers for Upload to the CheckPoint Server - how to generate Serial Numbers for use in a COTS (or similar) License Model.

• Dynamically Generating Serial Numbers on the CheckPoint Server - how to generate Serial Numbers on the fly as the result of a sale.

Note: The SoftwareShield CheckPoint™ License Server only comes with the Server Edition of the SoftwareShield System.