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License Activation

Overview​

You must Activate a SafeSquid Instance before using it to access the web.

Prerequisites​

  1. You need to setup Safesquid in your system.
  2. You need to configure your browser to use a proxy.

#First, register on the SafeSquid website to get the activation key. If you already have the activation key follow the below steps to activate SafeSquid. uploading the activation key When your accessing the interface for thefirst time

Download Activation Key​

Go to the Self Service portal and download the activation key. downloading activation key from key.safesquid.com

Upload Activation key​

Access the SafeSquid interface selecting your activation key file and clicking on upload clicking on restart waiting for page refresh

Validate Product Activation​

clicking on support to validate product activation showing activation details in licensedetails

Handling Validation Failure​

Check for the activation_key file on the SafeSquid server.​

Run the below command and check for the file

ls -lrt /usr/local/safesquid/security/

root@dev:~# ls -lrt /usr/local/safesquid/security/

total 60

drwxrwxr-- 2 ssquid root 4096 Jul 10 11:55 dns

-rw-rw-r-- 1 ssquid root 724 Jul 28 11:23 krb5.conf

-rw-rw-r-- 1 ssquid root 2111 Aug 3 18:52 activation_key

drwxrwxr-- 2 ssquid root 12288 Aug 4 16:04 policies

drwxrwxr-- 5 ssquid root 4096 Aug 4 16:09 ssl

-rw-rw-r-- 1 ssquid root 15744 Aug 5 09:51 activation_key.updates.backup

-rw-rw-r-- 1 ssquid root 15744 Aug 5 09:51 activation_key.updates

If the file was not found, then upload your activation key again and click on restart.

note

Restart SafeSquid service from the SafeSquid Interface will work, only if the monit service is configured properly on the SafeSquid server.

Otherwise, you can directly restart the SafeSquid service from the LINUX box by using the below commands

/etc/init.d/safesquid stop
/etc/init.d/safesquid start