A remote client that passes --cdm, has a cdm entry for the service that named the loaded device, or sets server_cdm: false now declines the server CDM at session create, and warns when the server keeps it. A service option listed in SERVER_DEVICE_OPTIONS keeps the server CDM.
The licence response lists KIDs a server vault supplied, the client proves them with the decode check, and a bad pair goes to the new session keys/bad route so the server flags its own row. Client vault keys go first over --remote, and the dashboard health warns when no SQLite vault can store flags.