UniKey Console Tool

Introduction

UniKey console version is a powerful tool to help software vendors manage their software development, license software and track their software sales performance. It can be integrated into your ERP, CRM and Financial system seamlessly.

The UniKey console is designed to follow the waterfall software development procedure, which helps software vendors manage their different products along its whole lifecycle. The feature based license management method is an innovative way to protect your software away from intruders and to license efficiently.

To administrate all software, check the sales history and gather information to prepare for the following software development, UniKey console employs a database to record information. It supports almost all database techniques available in today’s market, such as SQL, MySQL and Oracle.

Additionally, this Console supports multiple users to logon the system. Different operators in different roles can logon and operate the console utility within their personal level of permission. For example, employees from product department can logon the Console system, and submit product orders, but they cannot see any other information about the sales department.

Deployment

This section will introduce how to deploy the UniKey console on your system. The console has two parts, the front is a GUI which is a green software and does not need any installation. Users simply copy the folder to their computer.

The next step is to install a database and create tables. In the SDK, we provide a MySQL package. Double click on the mysql-5.5.15 icon, and follow the install wizard to finish the MySQL installation. After installing database, click on “Start”, and open the MySQL command line client.

Logon to the database by entering your password.

To create tables, input “<source file directory>\createconsoletables.sql” and press enter. After the database has been successfully built, open the console GUI by double clicking on the Console icon.  

Working Mode

The UniKey Console provides two different modes for users, Manage Mode and Device Mode. The Manage Mode is mainly used to manage the whole lifecycle of your software, and allows multiple operators to logon the system to implement their operations with their own levels of permission. Device mode provides a quick way to configure parameters or generate an update file for a UniKey device.

Manage Mode

The UniKey console Manage Mode is closely follows the software lifecycle, from the beginning of software design to the end of software development. At the design stage, software designers will separate the software into different blocks according to their functions. We highly recommend those medium to large software vendors use the manage mode to manage and license your software.

Logon

This system supports remote login. Users can set up the server’s IP via the GUI, and logon the server remotely to finish their operation.

To start using the Console, double click on the UniKey Console. The logon interface will pop up.

Input the user name and password to logon the system.

• If it is the first time you logon the system, the user name is administrator, and password is admin.

• The administrator shall logon the system and change their password first, and then he/she can create other accounts for different operators.

• If you try to logon to a server remotely, click on “Network Setting” and in the pop-up window, input the server IP address and port number.

Product

The product panel provides a series of interfaces for product related operations, including creating license features and generating product license strategies by combining one or more license features together.

==Feature Setting==

The feature setting is the most basic element to form a license for a product. For example, if the software requires a license based on expiration time, a time module shall be selected and the expiration time shall be set. This will form a license feature. If more license strategies are going to be used, more license features can be created.