Local Authentication

You will usually only need to get a local Visaj authentication key once you have purchased the product. However, if you are using a computer which cannot connect to the Internet, your supplier can issue time-locked evaluation keys using the same mechanism.

You will need a machine to use as the host for the authentication server. Ideally this should be a machine that is visible to everyone who is going to use Visaj, such as a machine which is permanently on your network - a file-server for example.

Then you need to download or install from CD the wlmd server program for your machine. There is a program available for most machine architectures. Contact your supplier if you have any problems, or if you are uncertain which one to use.

Once you have installed the authentication server, obtain the unique identifier.

On Windows 95/NT:
Locate wlmd in the Visaj folder and double click on it to start it.
On UNIX:
Run: wlmd -u
This will give you the unique identifier for your server host machine. If the machine has an ethernet card, the identifier will be derived from the hardware address of this card. If not, the identifier will be generated from other machine characteristics.

Next, you should contact your supplier, telling them this identifier. They will send you a key of the form:

     KEY:VISAJ:1.0:97/10/23:6:61038F88D0B4704F8F7A:AHJ-12345
which should be written to a file.

Next, run the authentication server giving it the name of the file containing the key:

On UNIX:
Run wlmd MyAuthorizationFile
On some systems, you will need to be root to do this; wlmd will let you know if this is the case.
(You may wish to redirect the output of the program to a log file and run the process in the background.)
On Windows 95/NT:
  1. Create a shortcut to wlmd by dragging the icon from the Visaj folder onto the desktop.
  2. Select the shortcut icon on the desktop so that it highlights then press the right mouse button. Select "Properties" from the popup menu.
  3. The Properties dialog contains a tabbed panel with two options. Select the "Shortcuts" page.
  4. The "Shortcuts" page contains a text field labelled "Target". This is the path to the wlmd.exe executable. Append the path to your authentication key file (from step 4 above) to the end of the wlmd.exe path. Close the Properties dialog.
  5. Double click on the wlmd shortcut icon to start the authentication server.
By default wlmd outputs diagnostics to C:\WLMD.LOG. This default can be overridden by adding the following flag to the command line in the shortcut Properties/Target field:
           -l <new-logfile-path>
where <new-logfile-path> is the path you require for the log file.

Finally, you should run Visaj, press the Configure button in the authentication dialog which appears, and select the Local page of the panel. Select the appropriate toggle for your type fo key - full or evaluation - and enter the name of the server machine into the text field labelled Host. Press the connect button, and your authentication should be complete.