Purpose

This document outlines the various ways to activate the Protect Console.  These methods are also used when the protect subscription has been renewed and the license needs to be refreshed.

Access the License Window

1.  Help > Enter/Refresh license key

2.  Shavlik Protect Activation window

Activate Online

1.  Select "Product or Bundle license".

2.  If this is a new license, enter your activation key and select Add.

3.  Choose "Online activation".

4.  Click "Activate online now"

If you are refreshing a license, leave the existing key and click "Activate online now"

Activate Offline

1.  Select "Product or Bundle license".

2.  If this is a new license, enter your activation key and select Add.

3.  If you are refreshing a license, leave the existing key

4.  Choose "Offline activation".

5.  Click "Create Request"  The manual activation request file "LicensInfo.xml will be saved to your desktop.

6.  Move the XML file to a computer with Internet access.

7.  Go to: https://license.shavlik.com/OfflineActivation to upload the file, "LicenseInfo.xml".

8.  The license portal will generate a license file for you to download and import

9.  Select "Download Manual License" to download the manual license file and move it to the console computer

10.  Within Shavlik Protect, select Help>Enter/refresh license key.

11.  Import the processed license to the console by selecting  "Import manual license"'.

12.  Click "select file" to browse for the file, ProtectLicense.xml, and click "Open".

13.  Shavlik Protect will process the file and the program will be activated.

Trial License

Choose "Trial Mode" and hit "Create request".

Note : If you have a proxy, in order to go through the Shavlik licensing servers you will need to configure the parameters inside the "configure proxy" dialog box.

Affected Product(s)

Shavlik Protect 9.x