Introduction
Many ConnectShip product features are enabled by the loading of a Progistics license key.
The license key represents those features that have been purchased as part of your system.
ConnectShip products are initially installed on new systems with a default license key,
which is configured to enable access to the basic features of the product. Because these
default license keys expire, customers who do not purchase a software license and load
a non-expiring license key that is specific to the features purchased, will find that
the software will cease to function as of the expiration date of the default license.
The purpose of this site is to allow you to view your current license information and
to load license keys into your ConnectShip software.
License keys are loaded from ConnectShip servers, based on data maintained by ConnectShip.
If the features associated with the license you load are not the features you expected,
please contact ConnectShip Technical Support
for assistance.
Constraints
Only one Progistics license key can be installed on a particular server. Loading of
subsequent license keys on a server will overwrite the features enabled by previous license keys.
Because license keys are loaded from ConnectShip servers, Internet access is required
in order to license your ConnectShip product. If your Internet connection requires
access through a firewall or proxy server, the additional information below may be
used to configure your ConnectShip software to enable loading of the license.
Internet Settings
As stated above, every method for licensing Progistics requires that the machine being
licensed has Internet access to progistics.connectship.com. If the Internet connection uses
an HTTP/HTTPS proxy, you must configure the Progistics HTTP Proxy settings
before you will be able to license. To do this, use the Internet Settings
page included with your ConnectShip product configuration pages to enter the settings
for the Progistics HTTP Proxy Configuration.
Options for Loading of License Keys
There are several possible methods for loading Progistics license
information which are described below. They all require a License ID and
Password and they all yield the same results. They differ in how and where the
load is initiated. No one method is preferred so you can choose the scheme that
best suits your environment. If you have questions regarding this process or
need your License ID and/or Password, please contact
ConnectShip Technical Support
for assistance.
Licensing from this site
You can use the License
Progistics page from the site to load your license key. This will load
the license onto your local machine (i.e. the machine from which you are now browsing)
from progistics.connectship.com. In order for this method to work,
you must be browsing from the machine on which you installed Progistics and
must have configured the Progistics Internet Settings for your proxy server as described below.
Licensing from the product configuration pages
The License/Version Info page included with your ConnectShip product configuration
pages will load license information on the server on which you installed
Progistics. Since the load is actually executed on the server, this scheme
allows you to initiate the load from any browser that has access to the
product configuration pages. This method is only available
if you are using the ConnectShip supplied configuration pages and if your web
server has Internet access to progistics.connectship.com.
Licensing using LicenseProgistics.bat
LicenseProgistics.bat is batch file that is included with Progistics. Therefore,
it can only be used from the machine on which Progistics was installed. Explore
to LicenseProgistics.bat, located in Progistics\Bin, and open it or simply run
LicenseProgistics from the command line. It will prompt for a License ID and
Password and load your license. LicenseProgistics.bat can only license the local
machine (i.e. the machine on which it is executed). The local machine must have
Internet access to progistics.connectship.com. This scheme does not involve the
browser or web server in any way.
Licensing from your custom client
You can also load a Progistics license from your own custom client. The
process of loading a license is very simple. Any environment capable of
accessing Microsoft COM or .NET programming interfaces can do it.
See the documentation for ITDCLicenseInfo::Load in the
Transportation Toolkit SDK for details. See LicenseProgistics.vbs, a VBScript
that is included with Progistics, for an example. It is located in
Progistics\Bin.
