The Loss of a Dongle – The Beginning of a Lot of Trouble

Have you ever lost a dongle and contacted the software vendor, only to be told that you will get a replacment dongle only if you update fully to the latest version, or that you will even have to buy a new license?

If you cannot prove that you really lost the dongle, the vendor has to assume that you are simply trying to rip them off for a second license or that you passed on or even sold the license to a third party.

In the best case you might get a replacement. However, it will take a lot of time until you get another dongle and can continue working. In the worst case the software vendor has gone out of business and you are unable to get a replacement. In this case all the know how you acquired with this software is now worthless. You will have to look for another solution and start all over again from zero.

What can you do to make this never happen, how do you protect your dongles?

Utilizing our dongle server will help you to never having to live through such nightmares. Still, you can always access your dongles, including their full functional range. On top of this, you profit from many more features which were not available to you before, or which at least would have been extremely difficult to realize from the technical side.

Simply insert your USB dongles into the dongle server and lock it. The dongle server has a network interface and you can get an 19" rack mount kit for it as well to store it safely in the server rack. In this way you keep all of your dongles safely in one place. From now on you will not have to pull dongles off and insert them somewhere else, or start asking around which of your colleagues is using the dongle you need. And there is no chance of losing it.

There are even more advantages. The dongle server comes with the UTN-Manager software. This enables you to activate one or more dongles attached to the dongle server with just one click and access their full functional range at once. The advantage is obvious: Your dongles are available from a central location and you can always immediately see whether the dongles are in use and, what is more, who is using them.

This puts an end to lost time searching or waiting for dongles shared among colleagues.

Have I raised your curiosity? In my next article I will give you more details about how you can assign dongles to specific departments and how you can define exclusive user rights for specific dongles.