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# Overview - Utilities

Your licensed application may have been delivered with several Sentinel RMS utilities which are used to install, configure, or to report on the license management system.

Given below is a list of these utilities and their brief description.

Utilities | Privileges Required | User Interface | Description
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echoid | User or higher | Command-line | Obtains fingerprinting information about a computer that will be used to generate a license.
wechoid | User or higher | Graphical | The Windows interface of echoid.
echouid | User or higher | Command-line | Obtains information about a license that will be used to generate an upgrade license.
loadls | Administrator | Command-line | Installs/ uninstalls the License Manager into the System Services registry and starts the service.
lservnt | Administrator | Command-line | Starts the License Manager.
lcommute | Administrator | Command-line | Command-line utility to check a commuter authorization out or back into the network.
Wcommute | Administrator | Graphical | Used on computers to check an authorization for a commuter license out or back into the network.
rcommute | User or higher | Command-line | Used for obtaining a commuter locking code and installing a remote commuter authorization received.
WRCommute | User or higher | Graphical | The Windows interface of rcommute.
lslic | Administrator | Command-line | Installs a license. You need the license code from your application developer.
lsmail | Administrator | Command-line | Set the SMTP server, which will be used by the RMS License Manager to send alerts via e-mail.
lsmon | Administrator | Command-line | Monitors License Manager transactions. For Windows computers, you may want to use WlmAdmin.
lspool | Administrator | Command-line | Temporarily configures the redundant License Manager pool.
lsrvdown | Administrator | Command-line | Shuts down the license server.
lsusage | Administrator | Command-line | Displays information from a License Manager log file. Can be used to produce CSV files used with ReportDB.mdb (Microsoft Access 2000 or higher) on Windows computers to create license token usage reports.
lswhere | Administrator | Command-line | Displays the names and IP address of the computers on the network running License Managers. For Windows computers, you may want to use WlmAdmin.
rlftool | Administrator | Command-line | Used for creating the redundant license files (for specifying redundant license configuration)
WRlfTool | Administrator | Graphical | Used for creating the redundant license files (for specifying redundant license configuration)
WlmAdmin | Administrator | Graphical | Allows adding and managing licenses on the customer site, plus few other administrator tasks (like, shutting down the License Manager, locating the License Managers in the subnet, and creating reservation file and redundant license file).