About Enterprise Licensing

AVEVA Enterprise Licensing system allows you to centrally manage AVEVA Enterprise Software product licenses. It is composed of a browser-based License Manager and a License Server that together allow you to share and deliver licenses for your installed products. This licensing system allows centralized license management, eliminates the need for dongles, and increases license security by use of Activated licenses. It supports flexible topologies for any size of system.

The AVEVA Enterprise Licensing system is supported on the following web browsers:

• Google Chrome versions later than 32

• Mozilla Firefox versions later than 27

  Note: Mozilla FireFox has a known limitation related to enabling integrated Windows Authentication. See Access License Manager in Firefox to change your FireFox configuration.

• Microsoft Edge

  Note: Microsoft Edge does not support single sign-on. Using Microsoft Edge will prompt you to sign in with your Windows credentials before launching License Manager.

The following describes the components of the AVEVA Enterprise Licensing system.

License Manager

The License Manager allows you to quickly access and maintain licenses for certain AVEVA Enterprise Software products in your different environments using its scalable, flexible design features:

• Browser-based for scalability and ease of use; can be remotely accessed by any of the supported web browsers.

• Light-weight, standalone software you can install on the same node as the License Server computer, or on any other node based on your deployment needs.

• Manage one or multiple License Servers to best organize and manage the licenses in your unique environment.

• Access details about your licenses, such as usage information, from the License Manager interface.

License Server

License Server provides all the functionality to acquire, store, maintain, and serve licenses to your installed AVEVA Enterprise software.

• Licenses are hosted and maintained on the License Server.

• Securely serve any type of software applications being licensed, including Windows browsers, tablets, and mobile devices.

• Provide current license usage information.

Activation Server

Activation server is a cloud-based Internet-accessible server to which the License Manager connects for license activation. The License Manager connects to the AVEVA Activation Server in the Cloud only temporarily during the activation process.

Additional functional components and concepts are described under the Key terms and concepts section.

Installed Products

Once the AVEVA Enterprise Software product is installed it relies on the licensing system to enable its functionality. During product installation you decide from which License Server you want the product to get its license. If a License Server is installed on the same computer as the product, it will use that one as the default. If the product is installed on a different computer than the License Server, you can point the product to License Server computer. All the products installed on the same computer would point to the same License Server.