AVEVA™ Enterprise Licensing Workflow

The following example of the AVEVA Enterprise Licensing workflow assumes that both License Manager and License Server are installed on the same computer, and that the computer can connect to the Internet.

1. Purchase one or more AVEVA Enterprise Software products

   Along with your installation media or downloads, you will receive one or more entitlement files containing license details.

2. Start License Manager

   It opens in a browser window and accesses the installed License Manager components.

3. Select the License Server

   Use the License Manager to select an available server to host the licenses you want to activate. You can also add a new license server.

   Note: You need to configure the connection to the License Server on any computer that needs to acquire licenses. See .

4. Import the entitlement file

   Once you import the entitlement file, the License Manager displays the available licenses.

   The entitlement file contains information for specific product licenses that are imported into the License Manager to activate purchased licenses. It is sent to you in an email upon purchase of your product licenses. It is in a zipped .xml file format.

5. Activate licenses

   License Manager connects to the AVEVA Enterprise Activation Server over the Internet to activate the selected licenses on the License Server. The Activation Server activates licenses on the License Server.

6. Manage your licenses

   Licenses are now available for their respective product to use. You can now:

   • Activate new licenses

   • Deactivate current licenses

   • Reserve and unreserve licenses

   • Checkout licenses.

     In some cases, you may need to reserve a license for a specific computer using the device reservation feature. For example, it is recommended that you checkout a license for any critical runtime computers. For more information, see Allocating AVEVA™ Enterprise Licenses.

     Note: Plant SCADA only supports device reservations. You cannot reserve licenses for specific users.

7. Install and configure Plant SCADA

   When running, Plant SCADA will acquire licenses from the License Server selected in Configurator (see Use Configurator to Set Up an Enterprise License Server). They will release them when no longer needed.

   Note: For more detailed information see the AVEVA Enterprise Licensing documentation in AVEVA™ Help.