AVEVA™ Enterprise Licensing
- Last UpdatedAug 28, 2024
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The AVEVA Enterprise Licensing system is a common platform that allows you to manage AVEVA Enterprise Software product licenses.
The system was introduced to allow centralized license management, remove the need for dongles, and increase license security by use of activated licenses. It supports flexible topologies for any size system.
The following describes the components of the AVEVA Enterprise Licensing system.
The License Manager allows you to access and maintain licenses for certain AVEVA Enterprise Software products in your different environments using its scalable, flexible design features:
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Browser-based for scalability and ease of use; can be remotely accessed by any of the supported web browsers.
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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.
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Manage one or multiple License Servers to organize the licensing requirements for your environment.
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Access details about your licenses, such as usage information, from the License Manager interface.
You can use Plant SCADA Studio to launch Enterprise License Manager from any installed location within your Plant SCADA system. See Launch Enterprise License Manager from Plant SCADA Studio.
License Server provides the functionality to acquire, store, maintain, and serve licenses to your installed AVEVA Enterprise software.
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Licenses are hosted and maintained on the License Server.
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Securely serve any type of software applications being licensed, including Windows browsers, tablets, and mobile devices.
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Provide current license usage information.
Note: Plant SCADA 2023 R2 allows you to run your AVEVA Enterprise License Server in Secure Mode. This facilitates encrypted communication for any Plant SCADA computers that connect with your license server to acquire licenses. For more information, see Running in Secure Mode in the topic Use Configurator to Set Up an Enterprise License 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.
Once the AVEVA Enterprise Software product is installed it relies on the licensing system to enable its functionality. Following installation, you use Configurator to specify from which License Server you want the product to get its license.
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If a License Server is installed on the same computer as the product, it will be selected in Configurator by default.
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If the product is installed on a different computer than the License Server, you can use Configurator to point the product to the required License Server computer.
You need to configure the connection to the License Server for any computers that need to acquire licenses. See Use Configurator to Set Up an Enterprise License Server.
All AVEVA products installed on the same computer need to point to the same License Server.
If you are implementing a distributed topology, we recommend creating a network diagram as an initial step. This will allow you to visually model your system before you decide where to install the License Manager and License Server components. For more information, see AVEVA™ Enterprise Licensing Topologies.
Note: When working with virtual environments, you need to deactivate all licenses in a License Server before cloning a virtual machine. If this is not done, the cloned License Server will go into Grace Period mode of 15 days, after which it will cease serving licenses.